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A brief overview of the Swi1 prion-[SWI+].
FEMS yeast research - 1 Sept 2018
Goncharoff Dustin K, Du Zhiqiang, Li Liming
Abstract excerpt
Prion and prion-like phenomena are involved in the pathology of numerous human neurodegenerative diseases. The budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, has a number of endogenous yeast prions-epigenetic elements that are transmitted as altered protein conformations and often manifested as heritable phenotypic traits. One such yeast prion, [SWI+], was discovered and characterized by our laboratory. The protein...
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