Prions as protein-based genetic elements

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue , 2002, Pages 703-741

  Uptain, Susan M ^a   Lindquist, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; HET s; Rnq1; Sup35; Ure2

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL PROTEIN; NITROGEN; PRION PROTEIN;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; KLUYVEROMYCES; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NITROGEN METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION REGULATION;

EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; FUNGI; MODELS, GENETIC; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; YEASTS;

CANDIDA; CANDIDA ALBICANS; FUNGAL PRIONS; KLUYVEROMYCES; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0036403732     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.56.013002.100603     Document Type: Review

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