mBio (Feb 2021)

Partial Prion Cross-Seeding between Fungal and Mammalian Amyloid Signaling Motifs

  • Thierry Bardin,
  • Asen Daskalov,
  • Sophie Barrouilhet,
  • Alexandra Granger-Farbos,
  • Bénédicte Salin,
  • Corinne Blancard,
  • Brice Kauffmann,
  • Sven J. Saupe,
  • Virginie Coustou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02782-20
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1

Abstract

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Amyloids are β-sheet-rich protein polymers that can be pathological or display a variety of biological roles. In filamentous fungi, specific immune receptors activate programmed cell death execution proteins through a process of amyloid templating akin to prion propagation.