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Short communication: A new bovine milk-protein variant: α-lactalbumin variant D.
Journal of dairy science - 1 Apr 2012
Visker M H P W, Heck J M L, van Valenberg H J F, van Arendonk J A M, Bovenhuis H
Abstract excerpt
Capillary zone electrophoresis of 1,948 Holstein-Friesian cows suggested the presence of an unknown protein variant of α-lactalbumin (α-LA) in the milk of 1 cow. Sequencing genomic DNA of this cow showed a polymorphism in the α-LA gene (LAA) that appears to be responsible for this protein variant. This single nucleotide polymorphism g.600G > T was located in exon 2 of LAA and causes the amino acid change 65Gln >...
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