Evolutionary conservation of prion-forming abilities of the yeast Sup35 protein

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 865-876

  Chernoff, Yury O ^a   Galkin, Alexey P ^a,b   Lewitin, Eugene ^a   Chernova, Tatiana A ^a,c   Newnam, Gary P ^a   Belenkiy, Slava M ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PICHIA; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL DIVISION; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PICHIA; PRIONS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EUKARYOTA; PICHIA; PICHIA METHANOLICA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033962765     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2000.01761.x     Document Type: Article

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