Viruses (May 2024)

Exploring Fundamentals of Prion Biology Using Natural Yeast Prions and Mammalian PrP

  • Irina L. Derkatch,
  • Susan W. Liebman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/v16050790
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 16, no. 5
p. 790

Abstract

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The key postulate of the prion paradigm is that some proteins can take on unconventional conformations and pass these conformations to newly synthesized protein molecules with the same primary structure [...]

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