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