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    Nucleic Acids Res. 1982 Jun 11;10(11):3503-15.

    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.

    Hall L, Craig RK, Edbrooke MR, Campbell PN.

    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.

    PMID: 6285305 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    PMCID: 320727

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