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Nature 273, 723-728 (29 June 1978) | doi:10.1038/273723a0; Accepted 11 May 1978

Sequence of chicken ovalbumin mRNA

L. McReynolds*, B. W. O'Malley*, A. D. Nisbet, J. E. Fothergill, D. Givol, S. Fields§, M. Robertson§ & G. G. Brownlee§

  1. *Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
  2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
  3. The Weizmann Institute, Rehovoth, Israel
  4. §MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK
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The complete sequence of chicken ovalbumin mRNA is presented; it is 1,859 residues long, excluding its terminal 'cap' and poly (A). The region coding for ovalbumin lies close to the 'cap' but is separated from the poly (A) by an extensive 3' noncoding region of 637 nucleotides which may have no function that is precisely dependent on its sequence.