Recordando el pasado: una nueva forma de herencia basada en proteínas

Mick F Tuite1

  • 1Kent Fungal Group, School of Biosciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NJ, UK.

Cell
|October 8, 2016
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores descubrieron nuevas proteínas de levadura que permiten la herencia basada en proteínas, imitando las propiedades de los priones sin formar estructuras amiloides. Estos hallazgos introducen una nueva categoría de factores epigenéticos que influyen en los rasgos sin alterar el código genético.

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