The role of the N-terminal oligopeptide repeats of the yeast Sup35 prion protein in propagation and transmission of prion variants

Genetics

Volumn 172, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 827-835

  Shkundina, Irina S ^a   Kushnirov, Vitaly V ^a   Tuite, Mick F ^b   Ter Avanesyan, Michael D ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL CARDIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MUTANT PROTEIN; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PRION PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; STRENGTH; WILD TYPE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHENOTYPE; PLASMIDS; PRIONS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE DELETION; VARIATION (GENETICS);

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 33644760407     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.105.048660     Document Type: Article

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