Human fibroblast interferon gene lacks introns

Richard M. Lawn, John P. Adelman, Arthur E. Franke, Catherine M. Houck, Mitchell Gross, Richard C. Najarian, David V. Goeddel

Nucleic Acids Research · 1981 · 112 citations · 28 references

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A recombinant lambda bacteriophage isolated from a human genome library contains the gene for fibroblast interferon (IFN-beta1). The DNA sequence of this gene is identical to the sequence of its mRNA and is devoid of introns.

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