Prion strains have also been observed in yeast, where self-propagating protein folds are responsible for inheritable traits. Recent findings reveal an exciting new insight into the structural ...

Clostridium botulinum produces a transcription factor that can aggregate and self-propagate a prion-like form, leading to genome-wide changes in gene expression in E. coli, according to a study. Jef ...

Limitations of the three putative mechanisms of amyloid fibril assembly for explaining Sup35 prion formation have ... to convert the phenotype of normal yeast cells into the translation deficient ...

Scientists have known for some time that plenty of prion-like proteins are found in relatively simple organisms such as yeast, some of which have known functions. A report by another group in Cell ...