Sentences with phrase «discovered yeast prion»

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Meanwhile, Eisenberg and his group zoomed in on a yeast prion, discovering that it had interlocking teeth like a zipper, which contorted the proteins into a ropelike shape.

December 9, 1997 Discovery links new form of inheritance in yeast to «mad - cow» type diseases Researchers from the Howard Hughes Institute at the University of Chicago have discovered that a chaperone protein from yeast, which helps proteins to change their shapes, controls a new, protein - only form of inheritance, called a yeast prion.

Researchers from the Howard Hughes Institute at the University of Chicago have discovered that a chaperone protein from yeast, which helps proteins to change their shapes, controls a new, protein - only form of inheritance, called a yeast prion.