“…Export of the Cox2p N-terminal hydrophilic domain depends on Oxa1p, a translocase component embedded in the inner membrane (Bonnefoy et al, 1994a;Altamura et al, 1996;He and Fox, 1997;Hell et al, 1997;Kermorgant et al, 1997;Hell et al, 1998). Another inner membrane protein, Mba1p (Rep and Grivell, 1996), is also involved in N-tail export (Preuss et al, 2001). After export, a 15-amino acid leader peptide is removed from the N terminus by a protease comprised of Imp1p, Imp2p, and Som1p (Schneider et al, 1991;Nunnari et al, 1993;Jan et al, 2000), in a reaction facilitated by the interaction of preCox2p with the inner membrane protein Cox20p (Hell et al, 2000).…”