Heritable activity: A prion that propagates by covalent autoactivation

Genes and Development

Volumn 17, Issue 17, 2003, Pages 2083-2087

  Roberts, B Tibor ^a   Wickner, Reed B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Epigenetics; Prion; Protease; Vacuole; Yeast

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; PROTEINASE; PROTEINASE B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPOROGENESIS; STARVATION;

ENDOPEPTIDASES; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; YEASTS;

EID: 0041319637     PISSN: 08909369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gad.1115803     Document Type: Article

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