High natural prevalence of a fungal prion

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

Volumn 109, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 10432-10437

  Debets, Alfons J M ^a   Dalstra, Henk J P ^a   Slakhorst, Marijke ^a   Koopmanschap, Bertha ^a   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a   Saupe, Sven J ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Institut de Biochimie et Genetique Cellulaires   (France)

Author keywords

Heterokaryon incompatibility; Self nonself recognition; Spore killing

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; FORCE; FUNGAL PRION; MEIOSIS; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; PREVALENCE; PRION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SENESCENCE;

GENES, FUNGAL; PODOSPORA; PRIONS;

FUNGAL PRION; FUNGI; HET-S PRION; MAMMALIA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA;

EID: 84863001294     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205333109     Document Type: Article

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