Prion formation by a yeast GLFG nucleoporin

Prion

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 391-399

  Halfmann, Randal ^a,b,e   Wright, Jessica R ^c,d,f   Alberti, Simon ^a,g   Lindquist, Susan ^a,b   Rexach, Michael ^c  

^a WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f FLATIRON INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amyloid; GLFG nup; Nuclear pore complex; Nucleoporin; Yeast prion

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOPORIN; PRION PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PORE; NUCLEAR PORE COMPLEX PROTEINS; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES;

EID: 84866555108     PISSN: 19336896     EISSN: 1933690X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/pri.20199     Document Type: Article

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