Structural insights into a yeast prion illuminate nucleation and strain diversity

Nature

Volumn 435, Issue 7043, 2005, Pages 765-772

  Krishnan, Rajaraman ^a   Lindquist, Susan L ^a  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMATIONS; DISEASES; NUCLEATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROTEINS;

AMYLOIDS; MOLECULAR EMBODIMENT; YEAST PRION;

YEAST;

AMYLOID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; CYSTEINE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SUP35 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE;

BIOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FUNGAL STRAIN; IN VIVO STUDY; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERIZATION; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; WILD TYPE; YEAST; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; CYSTEINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 20444474976     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03679     Document Type: Article

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