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Cloning of a marsupial kappa-casein cDNA from the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula).
Reproduction, fertility, and development - 1 Jan 2000
Stasiuk S X, Summers E L, Demmer J
Abstract excerpt
The main role of kappa-casein in milk is to stabilize the formation of casein micelles. Although marsupial milk contains casein micelles, kappa-casein had not been identified in any species. In these experiments, the first marsupial kappa-casein has been prepared as enriched casein fractions and the cDNA cloned from the brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula). Possum kappa-casein is a 158 amino acid peptide that...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Binding Sites
- Caseins
- Cattle
- Chymosin
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Complementary
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- In Vitro Techniques
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Opossums
- Phylogeny
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid