TABLE 5.

Amino acid residues around (putative) SPase II cleavage sites^a

Position and residue	Frequency (% of total)
−3
L	65
V	8
F	7
T	6
I	5
M	2
G	2
S	<1
W	<1
−2
A	36
S	24
T	11
I	6
V	6
G	6
M	2
L	2
C	2
P	2
F	2
L	2
D	<1
N	<1
−1
A	39
G	35
L	8
I	4
S	4
V	2
T	2
F	2
P	2
M	<1
C	<1
E	<1
+1
C	100
+2
G	30
S	28
A	9
I	4
T	4
F	4
W	4
K	4
L	4

^aThe frequency of a particular amino acid at each position is given as the percentage of the total number of predicted lipoprotein signal peptides in which it appears.