Iniciación del dominio priónico de la formación de amiloides in vitro a partir de urea nativa Ure2p

K L Taylor1, N Cheng, R W Williams

  • 1Laboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0830, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|February 26, 1999
PubMed
Resumen

El prión [URE3] en la levadura se explica por la autopropagación de los filamentos amiloides de la proteína Ure2p. Estas estructuras amiloides, formadas por fragmentos de Ure2p, pueden inducir la polimerización de Ure2p nativo, imitando el comportamiento de los priones.

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