Prion amyloid structure explains templating: How proteins can be genes

FEMS Yeast Research

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 980-991

  Wickner, Reed B ^a   Shewmaker, Frank ^a   Edskes, Herman ^a   Kryndushkin, Dmitry ^a   Nemecek, Julie ^a   McGlinchey, Ryan ^a   Bateman, David ^a   Winchester, Chia Lin ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Amyloid; In register parallel structure; Prion

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; YEAST;

AMYLOID; GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

FUNGAL PRION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 78349247103     PISSN: 15671356     EISSN: 15671364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1567-1364.2010.00666.x     Document Type: Review

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