Sentences with phrase «known yeast prion»

In her January 28, 2000 Science paper, Lindquist and postdoctoral fellow Liming Li created a novel prion by taking the prion - determining part of Sup35, a known yeast prion, and linking it to a mammalian hormone response factor.

Sondheimer focused his search on a handful of suspect proteins that possessed regions that looked a lot like the prion - determining regions of known yeast prions Sup35 and Ure2.

Not exact matches

Moreover, when the protein snippet was inserted into yeast, it could replace the functions of a known prion - forming yeast protein.

Although prions are infamous for causing Creutzfeld - Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy, commonly known as mad cow's disease, the present study indicates that prions identified in yeast, and possibly in plants, and other organisms may be beneficial.

In a massive undertaking, Whitehead Institute scientists have tested nearly 700 wild yeast strains isolated from diverse environments for the presence of known and unknown prion elements, finding them in one third of all strains.

«We already know that two of the 6,200 proteins in yeast can be prions,» said Sondheimer.