Cell-free Synthesis of Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein

Overview

Journal Neurochem Res

Specialties Chemistry
Neurology

Date 1980 May 1

PMID 7393381

Authors

P Beguin

E M SHOOTER

L F Eng

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Abstract

Glial fibrillary acidic (GFA) protein has been synthesized in an RNA-dependent cell-free system derived from rabbit reticulocytes. The cell-free synthesized product appears to have the same size as GFA protein isolated from bovine spinal cord, thus showing that GFA protein does not undergo detectable proteolytic processing.

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