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Is sequence conservation in interferons due to selection for functional proteins?

Nature - 1 Jan 2000

Valenzuela D, Weber H, Weissmann C

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The human alpha-interferon (IFN-alpha) gene family consists of at least 14 potentially functional non-allelic members; the amino acid sequences they encode differ from each other by up to approximately 20% of their residues. Human IFN-beta, which is encoded by a single gene, is distantly related to the IFN-alpha family; it differs in 67% of its residues from IFN-alpha 2. There is considerable evidence that...

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PMID: 3856100
DOI: 10.1038/313698a0

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