Taniguchi T, Mantei N, Schwarzstein M, Nagata S, Muramatsu M, Weissmann C
Nature. 1980 Jun 19;285(5766):547-9. doi: 10.1038/285547a0.
The coding sequences of the dDNAs of cloned human leukocyte interferon I and human fibroblast interferon show homologies of 45% at the nucleotide and 29% at the amino acid level. We conclude that the two genes were derived from a common ancestor.
克隆的人白细胞干扰素I和人成纤维细胞干扰素的双链DNA编码序列在核苷酸水平上有45%的同源性,在氨基酸水平上有29%的同源性。我们得出结论,这两个基因来源于一个共同的祖先。