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N-formyl-methionine termini are formed in the initiation reaction of bacterial protein synthesis and processed during elongation of the nascent polypeptide chain. We report that the formyl group must be removed before the methionine residue can be cleaved by methionine aminopeptidase. This has long been implicity assumed, but that assumption was based on inconclusive data and was in apparent conflict...
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