Fungal prions: structure, function and propagation.

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Prions are not uniquely associated with rare fatal neurodegenerative diseases in the animal kingdom; prions are also found in fungi and in particular the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. As with animal prions, fungal prions are proteins able to exist in one or more self-propagating alternative conformations, but show little primary sequence relationship with the mammalian prion protein PrP. Rather, fungal prions...

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