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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-1-23
pubmed:abstractText
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.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Fungal Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Glutathione Peroxidase, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Heat-Shock Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/HsP104 protein, S cerevisiae, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Peptide Termination Factors, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/PrPC Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/PrPSc Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Prions, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/SUP35 protein, S cerevisiae, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/URE2 protein, S cerevisiae
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0168-9525
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
467-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1996
pubmed:articleTitle
Maintenance and inheritance of yeast prions.
pubmed:affiliation
Research School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. m.f.tuite@ukc.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't