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Extracellular Vesicles and the Propagation of Yeast Prions.
Current topics in microbiology and immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Kabani Mehdi
Abstract excerpt
Infectious proteins or prions are self-replicating transmissible aggregates responsible for heritable traits in yeasts and amyloid diseases in mammals. Extensive investigations into the many prions discovered in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and most importantly the [PSI+] prion, shaped our understanding of the cellular mechanisms involved in amyloidosis. [PSI+] arises from the assembly of the translation...
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