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Nucleotide sequence of ornithine decarboxylase antizyme cDNA from Xenopus laevis
T Ichiba1, S Matsufuji, Y Miyazaki
1Department of Nutrition, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Biochimica Et Biophysica Acta
|May 17, 1995
Abstract:
An ornithine decarboxylase antizyme cDNA was obtained from Xenopus laevis liver and its sequence was determined. The cDNA consists of two major open reading frames as found in mammalian antizymes, which require +1 ribosomal frameshifting for its translation. Sequences important for frameshifting, namely the frameshift site and downstream stimulatory pseudoknot determined in the rat mRNA, are conserved.