Oligopeptide-repeat expansions modulate 'protein-only' inheritance in yeast

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6744, 1999, Pages 573-576

  Liu, Jia Jia ^a   Lindquist, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGO RED; FUNGAL PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IN VITRO STUDY; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; MUTAGENESIS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PLASMIDS; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

MAMMALIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033527045     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23048     Document Type: Article

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