The [URE3] prion is not conserved among Saccharomyces species

Genetics

Volumn 171, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 23-34

  Talarek, Nicolas ^a,b   Maillet, Laurent ^a   Cullin, Christophe ^a   Aigle, Michel ^a  

^a Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

^b DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URE2P PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL FRACTIONATION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASMID; PRION DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; SACCHAROMYCES; SOLUBILITY; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES PARADOXUS; SACCHAROMYCES UVARUM;

EID: 26444520003     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.043489     Document Type: Article

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