The yeast prions [PSI+] and [URE3] are molecular degenerative diseases

Prion

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 258-262

  Wickner, Reed B ^a   Edskes, Herman K ^a   Bateman, David ^a   Kelly, Amy C ^a   Gorkovskiy, Anton ^a  

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

Author keywords

PSI+ ; URE3 ; Prion; Sup35p; Ure2p

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 104; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PRION PROTEIN; PSI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; URE3 PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; GENE MUTATION; HOST; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES;

GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 83755183700     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/pri.5.4.17748     Document Type: Review

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