Heritable activity: a prion that propagates by covalent autoactivation.

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Known prions (infectious proteins) are self-propagating amyloids or conformationally altered proteins, but in theory an enzyme necessary for its own activation could also be a prion (or a gene composed of protein). We show that yeast protease B is such a prion, called [beta].[beta] is infectious, reversibly curable, and its de novo generation is induced by overexpression of the pro-protease. Present in normal...

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