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SUBMITTER: Derdowski A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3003433 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Derdowski Aaron A Sindi Suzanne S SS Klaips Courtney L CL DiSalvo Susanne S Serio Tricia R TR
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20101001 6004
According to the prion hypothesis, atypical phenotypes arise when a prion protein adopts an alternative conformation and persist when that form assembles into self-replicating aggregates. Amyloid formation in vitro provides a model for this protein-misfolding pathway, but the mechanism by which this process interacts with the cellular environment to produce transmissible phenotypes is poorly understood. Using the yeast prion Sup35/[PSI(+)], we found that protein conformation determined the size ...[more]