Unraveling Infectious Structures, Strain Variants and Species Barriers for the Yeast Prion [PSI+]

Prions are proteins that can access multiple conformations, at least one of which is beta-sheet rich, infectious and self-perpetuating in nature. These infectious proteins show several remarkable biological activities, including the ability to form multiple infectious prion conformations, also known...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lindquist, Susan, Tessier, Peter M.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biology
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/54769
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1307-882X