A yeast prion provides a mechanism for genetic variation and phenotypic diversity

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6803, 2000, Pages 477-483

  True, Heather L ^a   Lindquist, Susan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

ANTIBIOTICS; BINDING SITES; ETHANOL; FUNGAL PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TRANSLATION, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0034727077     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35035005     Document Type: Article

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