Epigenetics in the extreme: Prions and the inheritance of environmentally acquired traits

Science

Volumn 330, Issue 6004, 2010, Pages 629-632

  Halfmann, Randal ^a,b   Lindquist, Susan ^a,b,c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PROTEIN;

ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HERITABILITY; HOMEOSTASIS; INFECTIVITY; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN;

BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMEOSTASIS; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PHENOTYPE; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 78049361927     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1191081     Document Type: Review

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