Conversion of a yeast prion protein to an infectious form in bacteria

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 10596-10601

  Garrity, Sean J ^a   Sivanathan, Viknesh ^a   Dong, Jijun ^b   Lindquist, Susan ^b   Hochschild, Ann ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

PSI+ inducibility factor; Amyloid; Sup35

Indexed keywords

PRION PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUP35; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM VESICLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GENE SEQUENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

ESCHERICHIA COLI; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SOLUBILITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 77953782617     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0913280107     Document Type: Article

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