Pernicious Pathogens or Expedient Elements of Inheritance: The Significance of Yeast Prions

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Byers, James S ^a   Jarosz, Daniel F ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CYTOPLASMIC POLYADENYLATION ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; PRION PROTEIN; PRION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; SUP35 PROTEIN, S CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION TERMINATION FACTOR;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM FORMS; PATHOGENESIS; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION SIZE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SICKLE CELL ANEMIA; YEAST PRION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PODOSPORA; PRION;

PEPTIDE TERMINATION FACTORS; PODOSPORA; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

EID: 84901348344     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003992     Document Type: Article

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