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Maintenance and inheritance of yeast prions

Tuite, Mick F., Lindquist, Susan L. (1996) Maintenance and inheritance of yeast prions. Trends in Genetics, 12 (11). pp. 467-471. ISSN 0168-9525. (doi:10.1016/0168-9525(96)10045-7) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:18550)

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Abstract

The unusual genetic behaviour of two yeast extrachromosomal elements [PSI] and [URE3] is entirely consistent with a prion-like mechanism of inheritance involving an autocatalytic alteration in the conformation of a normal cellular protein. In the case of both yeast determinants the identity of the underlying cellular prion protein is known. The discovery that the molecular chaperone Hsp104 is essential for the establishment and maintenance of the [PSI] determinant provides an explanation for several aspects of the puzzling genetic behaviour of these determinants. What remains to be explained is whether these determinants represent 'disease states' of yeast or represent the first examples of a unique mechanism for producing a heritable change in phenotype without an underlying change in genotype.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/0168-9525(96)10045-7
Uncontrolled keywords: yeast; [PSI]; prion; SUP35/eRF3; SUP45/eRF1; antisuppressor; [PSI+] maintenance genes; Hsp104; prion antagonists
Subjects: Q Science > QP Physiology (Living systems) > QP517 Biochemistry
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Depositing User: P. Ogbuji
Date Deposited: 02 May 2009 16:58 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:56 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18550 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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