Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 11/1998, Volume 95, Issue 23, pp. 13363 - 13383
Prions are unprecedented infectious pathogens that cause a group of invariably fatal neurodegenerative diseases by an entirely novel mechanism. Prion diseases...
Nervous system diseases | Neurodegenerative diseases | Prions | Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome | Prion diseases | Viruses | Amino acids | Mice | Nucleic acids | Genetic mutation | FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA | TRANSMISSIBLE MINK ENCEPHALOPATHY | CEREBELLAR PURKINJE-CELLS | BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY | FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER SYNDROME | YEAST SUP35 PROTEIN | CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB-DISEASE | SCRAPIE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN | INCUBATION PERIOD MICE | Causes of | Nervous system | Degeneration (Pathology) | Degeneration | Research
Nervous system diseases | Neurodegenerative diseases | Prions | Creutzfeldt Jakob syndrome | Prion diseases | Viruses | Amino acids | Mice | Nucleic acids | Genetic mutation | FATAL FAMILIAL INSOMNIA | TRANSMISSIBLE MINK ENCEPHALOPATHY | CEREBELLAR PURKINJE-CELLS | BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY | FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | GERSTMANN-STRAUSSLER SYNDROME | YEAST SUP35 PROTEIN | CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB-DISEASE | SCRAPIE-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN | INCUBATION PERIOD MICE | Causes of | Nervous system | Degeneration (Pathology) | Degeneration | Research
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Molecular Microbiology, ISSN 0950-382X, 09/2019, Volume 112, Issue 3, pp. 932 - 943
Summary The translation termination factor Sup35p can form self‐replicating fibrillar aggregates responsible for the [PSI+] prion state. Sup35p aggregation...
GENETIC-VARIATION | SUPPRESSOR | TRANSMISSION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | PROTEASOME | PSI(+) | DETERMINANT | MICROBIOLOGY | CHAPERONE | INHERITANCE | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | PROPAGATION | Yeasts | Yeast | Gels | Fluorescence | Cytosol | Phase transitions | Lysates | Replicating | Infectious diseases | Infectivity | Prions | Translation termination | Assemblies | Prion protein | Life Sciences | Microbiology and Parasitology | Biomolecules | Subcellular Processes | Cellular Biology | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
GENETIC-VARIATION | SUPPRESSOR | TRANSMISSION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | PROTEASOME | PSI(+) | DETERMINANT | MICROBIOLOGY | CHAPERONE | INHERITANCE | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | PROPAGATION | Yeasts | Yeast | Gels | Fluorescence | Cytosol | Phase transitions | Lysates | Replicating | Infectious diseases | Infectivity | Prions | Translation termination | Assemblies | Prion protein | Life Sciences | Microbiology and Parasitology | Biomolecules | Subcellular Processes | Cellular Biology | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
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Genetics, ISSN 0016-6731, 03/2005, Volume 169, Issue 3, pp. 1227 - 1242
[PSI(+)] is a prion isoform of the yeast release factor Sup35. In some assays, the cytosolic chaperones Ssa1 and Ssb1/2 of the Hsp70 family were previously...
Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal | Prions - metabolism | Prions - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Adenosine Triphosphatases - metabolism | Genotype | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Escherichia coli - genetics | Plasmids | Peptide Termination Factors | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Proteins | Brewer's yeast | Prions
Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal | Prions - metabolism | Prions - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Adenosine Triphosphatases - metabolism | Genotype | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Escherichia coli - genetics | Plasmids | Peptide Termination Factors | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Proteins | Brewer's yeast | Prions
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Science, ISSN 0036-8075, 01/2017, Volume 355, Issue 6321, pp. 198 - 198
Prions are self-propagating protein aggregates that act as protein-based elements of inheritance in fungi. Although prevalent in eukaryotes, prions have not...
YEAST | RHO | PROTEIN | COLI | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | TRANSCRIPTION | Amino Acid Sequence | Prions - metabolism | Rho Factor - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - genetics | Amyloid - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | Rho Factor - metabolism | Clostridium botulinum - metabolism | Amyloid - metabolism | Escherichia coli - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Protein Domains | Bacterial Proteins - metabolism | Rho Factor - genetics | Evolution, Molecular | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - chemistry | Physiological aspects | Prions | Proteins | Rho protein | Eukaryotes | Transcription | E coli | Bacterial proteins | Bacteria | Evolution | Genomes | Prion protein | Diseases | Fungi | Escherichia | Aggregates
YEAST | RHO | PROTEIN | COLI | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | TRANSCRIPTION | Amino Acid Sequence | Prions - metabolism | Rho Factor - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - chemistry | Bacterial Proteins - genetics | Amyloid - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | Rho Factor - metabolism | Clostridium botulinum - metabolism | Amyloid - metabolism | Escherichia coli - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Protein Domains | Bacterial Proteins - metabolism | Rho Factor - genetics | Evolution, Molecular | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - chemistry | Physiological aspects | Prions | Proteins | Rho protein | Eukaryotes | Transcription | E coli | Bacterial proteins | Bacteria | Evolution | Genomes | Prion protein | Diseases | Fungi | Escherichia | Aggregates
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Genetics, ISSN 0016-6731, 08/2012, Volume 191, Issue 4, pp. 1041 - 1072
The concept of a prion as an infectious self-propagating protein isoform was initially proposed to explain certain mammalian diseases. It is now clear that...
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY | SOLID-STATE NMR | CHAPERONE PROTEIN HSP104 | HET-S PRION | AMYLOID-LIKE FIBRILS | GENETICS & HEREDITY | BETA-SHEET STRUCTURE | DE-NOVO APPEARANCE | RNQ1 NONPRION DOMAIN | FUNGUS PODOSPORA-ANSERINA | RELEASE FACTOR ERF3 | Prions - physiology | Yeasts - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Genetic aspects | Research | Yeast fungi | Structure | Prions | Cell division | Genotype & phenotype | Pathology | Yeast | YeastBook
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON-MICROSCOPY | SOLID-STATE NMR | CHAPERONE PROTEIN HSP104 | HET-S PRION | AMYLOID-LIKE FIBRILS | GENETICS & HEREDITY | BETA-SHEET STRUCTURE | DE-NOVO APPEARANCE | RNQ1 NONPRION DOMAIN | FUNGUS PODOSPORA-ANSERINA | RELEASE FACTOR ERF3 | Prions - physiology | Yeasts - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Genetic aspects | Research | Yeast fungi | Structure | Prions | Cell division | Genotype & phenotype | Pathology | Yeast | YeastBook
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Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, 2001, Volume 106, Issue 2, pp. 183 - 194
The yeast prion [PSI ] results from self-propagating aggregates of Sup35p. De novo formation of [PSI ] requires an additional non-Mendelian trait, thought to...
Fungal Proteins - chemistry | Molecular Chaperones - metabolism | Prions - genetics | Ataxin-3 | Machado-Joseph Disease - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Humans | Repressor Proteins | Peptides - genetics | Glutamine - metabolism | Molecular Sequence Data | Molecular Chaperones - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Nerve Tissue Proteins - chemistry | Peptides - metabolism | Glutamine - chemistry | Genes, Fungal - genetics | Asparagine - genetics | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Amino Acid Sequence | Prions - metabolism | Gene Expression | Peptides - chemistry | Molecular Chaperones - genetics | Fungal Proteins - genetics | Prions - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - chemistry | Nuclear Proteins | Nerve Tissue Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - cytology | Phenotype | Asparagine - metabolism | Glutamine - genetics | Peptide Termination Factors | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins | Protein Binding | Microscopy, Fluorescence | Asparagine - chemistry | Fungal Proteins - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Protein biosynthesis | Epigenesis | Yeast | Research | Prions
Fungal Proteins - chemistry | Molecular Chaperones - metabolism | Prions - genetics | Ataxin-3 | Machado-Joseph Disease - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Humans | Repressor Proteins | Peptides - genetics | Glutamine - metabolism | Molecular Sequence Data | Molecular Chaperones - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Nerve Tissue Proteins - chemistry | Peptides - metabolism | Glutamine - chemistry | Genes, Fungal - genetics | Asparagine - genetics | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Amino Acid Sequence | Prions - metabolism | Gene Expression | Peptides - chemistry | Molecular Chaperones - genetics | Fungal Proteins - genetics | Prions - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - chemistry | Nuclear Proteins | Nerve Tissue Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - cytology | Phenotype | Asparagine - metabolism | Glutamine - genetics | Peptide Termination Factors | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins | Protein Binding | Microscopy, Fluorescence | Asparagine - chemistry | Fungal Proteins - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Protein biosynthesis | Epigenesis | Yeast | Research | Prions
Journal Article
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, ISSN 0027-8424, 3/2011, Volume 108, Issue 13, pp. 5337 - 5341
[PSI*] is a priori of the essential translation termination factor Sup35p. Although mammalian prion infections are uniformly fatal, commonly studied [PSI⁺]...
Proteins | Yeasts | Cell growth | Plasmids | Prions | Medical genetics | Cell aggregates | Evolutionary genetics | Amyloids | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | SUPPRESSOR | SUP35 PROTEIN | IN-VITRO | DOMAIN | TRANSMISSION | MESSENGER-RNA | GENE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | INCOMPATIBILITY | URE3 | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | Glutathione Peroxidase - metabolism | Prions - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - physiology | Animals | Prions - genetics | Peptide Termination Factors - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - pathogenicity | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | Peptide Termination Factors - metabolism | Glutathione Peroxidase - genetics | Research | Yeast fungi | Properties | Health aspects | Biological Sciences
Proteins | Yeasts | Cell growth | Plasmids | Prions | Medical genetics | Cell aggregates | Evolutionary genetics | Amyloids | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | SUPPRESSOR | SUP35 PROTEIN | IN-VITRO | DOMAIN | TRANSMISSION | MESSENGER-RNA | GENE | MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES | INCOMPATIBILITY | URE3 | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | Glutathione Peroxidase - metabolism | Prions - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - physiology | Animals | Prions - genetics | Peptide Termination Factors - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - pathogenicity | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | Peptide Termination Factors - metabolism | Glutathione Peroxidase - genetics | Research | Yeast fungi | Properties | Health aspects | Biological Sciences
Journal Article
Cell, ISSN 0092-8674, 2001, Volume 106, Issue 2, pp. 171 - 182
Prions are self-propagating protein conformations. Recent research brought insight into prion propagation, but how they first appear is unknown. We previously...
YEAST SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | IN-VITRO | SUP35 PROTEIN | PROTEIN HSP104 | PSI+ PRION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | FORMING DOMAIN | PSI(+) | DE-NOVO APPEARANCE | RELEASE FACTOR | PROPAGATION | CELL BIOLOGY | Fungal Proteins - chemistry | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Prions - metabolism | Prions - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Fungal Proteins - genetics | Prions - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Glutathione Peroxidase | Phenotype | Models, Biological | Plasmids - genetics | Protein Structure, Quaternary | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins | Protein Binding | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - genetics | Genes, Fungal - genetics | Fungal Proteins - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Prion diseases | Protein biosynthesis | Prions | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
YEAST SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | IN-VITRO | SUP35 PROTEIN | PROTEIN HSP104 | PSI+ PRION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | FORMING DOMAIN | PSI(+) | DE-NOVO APPEARANCE | RELEASE FACTOR | PROPAGATION | CELL BIOLOGY | Fungal Proteins - chemistry | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Prions - metabolism | Prions - genetics | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Fungal Proteins - genetics | Prions - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - chemistry | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Glutathione Peroxidase | Phenotype | Models, Biological | Plasmids - genetics | Protein Structure, Quaternary | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins | Protein Binding | Recombinant Fusion Proteins - genetics | Genes, Fungal - genetics | Fungal Proteins - metabolism | Physiological aspects | Prion diseases | Protein biosynthesis | Prions | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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Biochemistry (Moscow), ISSN 0006-2979, 12/2007, Volume 72, Issue 13, pp. 1519 - 1536
Prions were originally defined as infectious agents of protein nature, which caused neurodegenerative diseases in animals and humans. The prion concept implies...
Life Sciences | Biochemistry, general | conformational rearrangement | neurodegenerative disease | non-chromosomal inheritance | Microbiology | prion | Bioorganic Chemistry | Biomedicine general | PrP | Neurodegenerative disease | Prion | Conformational rearrangement | Non-chromosomal inheritance | CHAIN RELEASE FACTORS | PSI+ PRION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | FUNGUS PODOSPORA-ANSERINA | YEAST SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | IN-VITRO | MESSENGER-RNA | DE-NOVO GENERATION | AMYLOID-LIKE FIBRILS | SCRAPIE PRION | TRANSLATION TERMINATION | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Molecular Chaperones - metabolism | Models, Chemical | Protein Structure, Secondary | Humans | Amyloid - chemistry | Prions - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Animals | Prions - physiology | Podospora - metabolism | Models, Biological | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Protein Conformation | Prion Diseases - metabolism | Proteins | Genetics | Prions
Life Sciences | Biochemistry, general | conformational rearrangement | neurodegenerative disease | non-chromosomal inheritance | Microbiology | prion | Bioorganic Chemistry | Biomedicine general | PrP | Neurodegenerative disease | Prion | Conformational rearrangement | Non-chromosomal inheritance | CHAIN RELEASE FACTORS | PSI+ PRION | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | FUNGUS PODOSPORA-ANSERINA | YEAST SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | IN-VITRO | MESSENGER-RNA | DE-NOVO GENERATION | AMYLOID-LIKE FIBRILS | SCRAPIE PRION | TRANSLATION TERMINATION | Protein Structure, Tertiary | Molecular Chaperones - metabolism | Models, Chemical | Protein Structure, Secondary | Humans | Amyloid - chemistry | Prions - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Animals | Prions - physiology | Podospora - metabolism | Models, Biological | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Protein Conformation | Prion Diseases - metabolism | Proteins | Genetics | Prions
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Nature Cell Biology, ISSN 1465-7392, 09/2008, Volume 10, Issue 9, pp. 1069 - 1075
Prion proteins are found in mammals and yeast, and can transmit diseases and encode heritable phenotypic traits. In Saccharomyces cerevisiae, eRF3, Rnq1, Ure2...
YEAST | GENETIC-VARIATION | ANTIZYME | READTHROUGH | CONSERVATION | METABOLISM | ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE | STOP CODON | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | TRANSLATION TERMINATION | CELL BIOLOGY | Prions - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Epigenesis, Genetic | Prions - chemistry | Peptide Termination Factors - metabolism | Polyamines - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - cytology | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Phenotype | Models, Biological | Intracellular Space - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Peptide Termination Factors - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - chemistry | Polyamines | Health aspects | Prions | Life Sciences | Microbiology and Parasitology | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
YEAST | GENETIC-VARIATION | ANTIZYME | READTHROUGH | CONSERVATION | METABOLISM | ORNITHINE DECARBOXYLASE | STOP CODON | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | TRANSLATION TERMINATION | CELL BIOLOGY | Prions - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Epigenesis, Genetic | Prions - chemistry | Peptide Termination Factors - metabolism | Polyamines - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - cytology | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Phenotype | Models, Biological | Intracellular Space - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | Peptide Termination Factors - chemistry | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - chemistry | Polyamines | Health aspects | Prions | Life Sciences | Microbiology and Parasitology | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology
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Yeast, ISSN 0749-503X, 03/2010, Volume 27, Issue 3, pp. 167 - 179
The continued propagation of the yeast [PSI+] prion requires the molecular chaperone Hsp104 yet in cells engineered to overexpress Hsp104; prion propagation is...
co‐chaperone | [PSI+] prion | chaperone | Hsp104 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | yeast | Yeast | Co-chaperone | Chaperone | PSI | prion | TERMINAL DOMAIN | MOLECULAR CHAPERONES | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | GUANIDINE-HYDROCHLORIDE | AGGREGATED PROTEINS | MICROBIOLOGY | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | PROTEIN DISAGGREGATION | DAMAGED PROTEINS | co-chaperone | BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY | IN-VIVO | MYCOLOGY | HSP104 INACTIVATION | CYTOSOLIC HSP70 | Prions - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Mutant Proteins - genetics | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics | Mutant Proteins - metabolism | Cyclophilins - genetics | Cyclophilins - metabolism | Mutation, Missense | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics | Gene Deletion | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Amino Acid Substitution - genetics | HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics
co‐chaperone | [PSI+] prion | chaperone | Hsp104 | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | yeast | Yeast | Co-chaperone | Chaperone | PSI | prion | TERMINAL DOMAIN | MOLECULAR CHAPERONES | BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY | GUANIDINE-HYDROCHLORIDE | AGGREGATED PROTEINS | MICROBIOLOGY | SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE | PROTEIN DISAGGREGATION | DAMAGED PROTEINS | co-chaperone | BIOTECHNOLOGY & APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY | IN-VIVO | MYCOLOGY | HSP104 INACTIVATION | CYTOSOLIC HSP70 | Prions - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - genetics | Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Mutant Proteins - genetics | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics | Mutant Proteins - metabolism | Cyclophilins - genetics | Cyclophilins - metabolism | Mutation, Missense | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - genetics | HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Saccharomyces cerevisiae - metabolism | Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics | Gene Deletion | Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins - metabolism | HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins - metabolism | Amino Acid Substitution - genetics | HSP90 Heat-Shock Proteins - genetics
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