C-terminus

C-terminus
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C-terminus
The end of a polypeptide chain that has a free carboxylic acid (-COOH) group.

Alternative selection of cleavage/polyadenylation sites: this is the only method of splicing which can produce an alternative C-terminus domain in proteins. In this case, different sets of polyadenylation sites can be spliced with the other exons.

See also: Protein, Amino acid, Acids, Proteins, Trans