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Effect of a single polymorphism in the Japanese quail NK-lysin gene on antimicrobial activity.
Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho - 1 Jan 2016
Ishige Taichiro, Hara Hiromi, Hirano Takashi, Kono Tomohiro, Hanzawa Kei
Abstract excerpt
NK-lysins are cationic peptides that play important roles in host protection, and are an important constituent of innate immunity. We identified nine single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the NK-lysin open reading frame (ORF) from 32 Japanese quails in six strains: A, B, ND, K, P, and Y. The G to A substitution at nucleotide position 272 in the ORF resulted in a Gly (G) to Asp (D) amino acid substitution...
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