The yeast prion [URE3] can be greatly induced by a functional mutated URE2 allele

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 3215-3222

  Fernandez Bellot, Eric ^a   Guillemet, Elisabeth ^a   Cullin, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation; GFP; Prion; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; URE3

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INDUCTION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034601056     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/19.13.3215     Document Type: Article

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