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Comparative Study
. 1980 Jun 19;285(5766):547-9.
doi: 10.1038/285547a0.

Human leukocyte and fibroblast interferons are structurally related

T Taniguchi, N Mantei, M Schwarzstein, S Nagata, M Muramatsu, C Weissmann
Comparative Study

Human leukocyte and fibroblast interferons are structurally related

T Taniguchi et al. Nature. .

Abstract

The coding sequences of the dDNAs of cloned human leukocyte interferon I and human fibroblast interferon show homologies of 45% at the nucleotide and 29% at the amino acid level. We conclude that the two genes were derived from a common ancestor.

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