Hiding in plain sight: vesicle-mediated export and transmission of prion-like proteins

Infectious proteins or prions are non-native conformations of proteins that are the causative agents of devastating neurodegenerative diseases in humans and heritable traits in filamentous fungi and yeasts. Prion proteins form highly ordered self-perpetuating fibrillar aggregates that traffic vertic...

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Main Author: Mehdi Kabani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Shared Science Publishers OG 2020-06-01
Series:Microbial Cell
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Online Access:http://microbialcell.com/researcharticles/2020a-kabani-microbial-cell/