Mechanism of inhibition of Ψ+ prion determinant propagation by a mutation of the N-terminus of the yeast Sup35 protein

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 5805-5810

  Kochneva Pervukhova, Natalia V ^a   Paushkin, Sergey V ^a   Kushnirov, Vitaly V ^a   Cox, Brian S ^b   Tuite, Mick F ^b   Ter Avanesyan, Michael D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL CARDIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Prion; Release factor eRF3; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Translation termination

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; GENE CONTROL; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CHROMOSOMES, FUNGAL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DOSAGE; MUTATION; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; MAMMALIAN PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032189203     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5805     Document Type: Article

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