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Heterologous cross-seeding mimics cross-species prion conversion in a yeast model

BACKGROUND: Prions are self-perpetuating, infectious, aggregated proteins that are associated with several neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and heritable traits in yeast. Sup35p, the protein determinant of the yeast prion [PSI(+)], has a conserved C terminal domain that performs the Sup35p func...

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Autores principales: Vishveshwara, Namitha, Liebman, Susan W
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19470166
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-7-26