Yeast prion protein derivative defective in aggregate shearing and production of new 'seeds'

EMBO Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 23, 2001, Pages 6683-6691

  Borchsenius, Andrey S ^a,b   Wegrzyn, Renee D ^a   Newnam, Gary P ^a   Inge Vechtomov, Sergey G ^b   Chernoff, Yury O ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chaperon; Oligopeptide repeats; Prion; Protein aggregation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 104; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUP35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MITOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; YEAST;

ALLELES; CYTOPLASM; DNA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; HSP70 HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MITOSIS; MOLECULAR CHAPERONES; MUTATION; PLASMIDS; PRIONS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035803490     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/20.23.6683     Document Type: Article

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