Abstract
The mouse α-fetoprotein mRNA is the product of a single-copy gene whose mRNA coding sequences are represented discontinuously in the genome. Several EcoRI genomic fragments which contain portions of the α-fetoprotein gene have been cloned by using the EK2 vector λgt WES.λB. In addition, a mouse genomic library has been screened to obtain a 15.75-kilobase segment of DNA that includes more than 85% of the α-fetoprotein coding sequence. Analyses by restriction endonuclease mapping and electron microscopy showed that the mRNA sequence is interrupted by at least 11 intervening sequences which occupy 90% of the cloned DNA.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1351-1355 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 3 I |
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| State | Published - 1980 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General