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The yeast global transcriptional co-repressor protein Cyc8 can propagate as a prion

Although many proteins can misfold into a self-seeding amyloid-like conformation1, only six are known to be infectious, i.e. prions; [PSI(+)], [PIN(+)], [URE3], [SWI(+)] and [HET-s] cause distinct heritable physiological changes in fungi2–4, while PrP(Sc) causes infectious encephalopathies in mammal...

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Autores principales: Patel, Basant K, Gavin-Smyth, Jackie, Liebman, Susan W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2667906/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19219034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncb1843