The Yeast Prion [SWI+] Abolishes Multicellular Growth by Triggering Conformational Changes of Multiple Regulators Required for Flocculin Gene Expression

Cell Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 2865-2878

  Du, Zhiqiang ^a   Zhang, Ying ^b   Li, Liming ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

amyloids; filamentous growth; flocculin; multicellularity; prion; protein conformation change; protein aggregation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; SWI SNF; Swi1; yeast

Indexed keywords

PRION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PRION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; PRIONS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84975527875     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.11.060     Document Type: Article

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