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Sex, prions, and plasmids in yeast.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Oct 2012

Kelly Amy C, Shewmaker Frank P, Kryndushkin Dmitry, Wickner Reed B

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Even deadly prions may be widespread in nature if they spread by infection faster than they kill off their hosts. The yeast prions [PSI+] and [URE3] (amyloids of Sup35p and Ure2p) were not found in 70 wild strains, while [PIN+] (amyloid of Rnq1p) was found in ∼16% of the same population. Yeast prion infection occurs only by mating, balancing the detrimental effects of carrying the prion. We estimated the...

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PMID: 22949655
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213449109
PMCID: PMC3479589

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