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SUBMITTER: Nakayashiki T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1180808 | biostudies-other | 2005 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nakayashiki Toru T Kurtzman Cletus P CP Edskes Herman K HK Wickner Reed B RB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050715 30
Viruses, plasmids, and prions can spread in nature despite being a burden to their hosts. Because a prion arises de novo in more than one in 10(6) yeast cells and spreads to all offspring in meiosis, its absence in wild strains would imply that it has a net deleterious effect on its host. Among 70 wild Saccharomyces strains, we found the [PIN+] prion in 11 strains, but the [URE3] and [PSI+] prions were uniformly absent. In contrast, the "selfish" 2mu DNA was in 38 wild strains and the selfish RN ...[more]