Ovalbumin gene: evidence for a leader sequence in mRNA and DNA sequences at the exon-intron boundaries - PubMed (original) (raw)

Ovalbumin gene: evidence for a leader sequence in mRNA and DNA sequences at the exon-intron boundaries

R Breathnach et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1978 Oct.

Abstract

Selected regions of cloned EcoRI fragments of the chicken ovalbumin gene have been sequenced. The positions where the sequences coding for ovalbumin mRNA (ov-mRNA) are interrupted in the genome have been determined, and a previously unreported interruption in the DNA sequences coding for the 5' nontranslated region of the messenger has been discovered. Because directly repeated sequences are found at exon-intron boundaries, the nucleotide sequence alone cannot define unique excision-ligation points for the processing of a possible ov-mRNA precursor. However, the sequences in these boundary regions share common features; this leads to the proposal that there are, in fact, unique excision-ligation points common to all boundaries.

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