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    Nucleic Acids Res. 1980 Jul 11;8(13):2885-94.

    The complete amino acid sequence of human fibroblast interferon as deduced using synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotide primers of reverse transcriptase.

    Houghton M, Easton MA, Stewart AG, Smith JC, Doel SM, Catlin GH, Lewis HM, Patel TP, Emtage JS, Carey NH, Porter AG.

    Using synthetic oligodeoxyribonucleotides to prime the transcription of interferon mRNA and cDNA, we recently determined the mRNA sequence coding for the 47 amino-terminal amino acids of mature human fibroblast interferon (1). From this sequence, we have now synthesised an oligodeoxyribonucleotide that is homologous with the mRNA sequence coding for amino acids 42-45 and used it as a primer to selectively transcribe an interferon cDNA template. The sequence of the newly synthesised DNA predicted the sequence of amino acids 48-109 in the interferon polypeptide. By repeating this process with one more primer, we have determined the complete amino acid sequence of mature human fibroblast interferon, a polypeptide of 166 amino acids.

    PMID: 6159580 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

    PMCID: 324132

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