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Sequence of the highly conserved gene encoding the human 54kDa subunit of signal recognition particle
Abstract:
The complete sequence of the human gene encoding the 54kDa subunit of the signal recognition particle has been isolated from a cDNA library. Degenerate oligonucleotides based on the 5' and 3' coding region of the canine gene and a mammalian codon usage table, were used to amplify the sequence using PCR. The nucleotide sequence of the human gene shows that the human sequence shares a 95.8% nucleotide sequence homology and 100% amino acid sequence homology to it's canine counterpart. The sequence has been given the accession number X86373 in the EMBL database.
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