Comparison of the Nucleotide Sequence of Cloned Human and Guinea-pig Pre-alpha-lactalbumin CDNA with That of Chick Pre-lysozyme CDNA Suggests Evolution from a Common Ancestral Gene

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 1982 Jun 11

PMID 6285305

Citations 23

Authors

L Hall

R K Craig

M R Edbrooke

P N CAMPBELL

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Abstract

Nucleotide sequence analyses of essentially full-length copies of human and guinea-pig pre-alpha-lactalbumin cDNAs contained within recombinant plasmids, (i) confirm the presence of 19 amino acid hydrophobic amino terminal peptide extensions encoded within each mRNA; and (ii) provides evidence for the existence of a minor variant of guinea-pig alpha-lactalbumin mRNA encoding a protein with a 36 residue carboxyl-terminal extension. Comparison of the nucleotide sequence within the coding region of the human, and the predominant guinea-pig pre-alpha-lactalbumin mRNAs, with the analogous region of hen pre-lysozyme mRNA provides compelling evidence that all have evolved from a common ancestral gene.

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