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A viral expression factor behaves as a prion

Prions are proteins that can fold into multiple conformations some of which are self-propagating. Such prion-forming proteins have been found in animal, plant, fungal and bacterial species, but have not yet been identified in viruses. Here we report that LEF-10, a baculovirus-encoded protein, behave...

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Autores principales: Nan, Hao, Chen, Hongying, Tuite, Mick F., Xu, Xiaodong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6341119/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30664652
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08180-z