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Kosuke Jozaki1, Hiroki Shinkai, Takeya Morozumi
1Kagoshima University, Japan.
Abstract:
NCR1 (NKp46) is expressed on the surfaces of natural killer cells and recognizes hemagglutinin on the influenza virus. We cloned the NCR1 gene in pigs and found that porcine NCR1 was minimally expressed in the thymus, suggesting that NCR1 could be a useful marker of natural killer cells in pigs. We observed three nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms and one deletion of three nucleotides in the coding sequence of porcine NCR1; these may affect the function of NCR1. The polymorphisms detected here may be useful markers for breeding for influenza resistance in pigs.
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