Structure-Function Analysis of Mouse Interferon Alpha Species: MuIFN-α10, a Subspecies with Low Antiviral Activity

Journal of General Virology (1988), 69, 67–75

It has been drawn to our attention that the DNA sequence of the MuIFN-α10 gene published in this paper is almost identical to one previously published for the MuIFN-α7 gene [Dion, M., Vodjdani, G. & Doly, J. (1986). Sequence and expression of a novel murine interferon alpha gene — homology with enhancer elements in the regulatory region of the gene. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 138, 826–834]. There is one sequence difference in the 5′ non-coding region and one in the 3′ non-coding region, but the protein-coding region is identical in both analyses. It is proposed that MuIFN-α10 be renamed MuIFN-α7(10).