Sentences with phrase «new yeast prion»

Not only that, but in the current issue of Molecular Cell, the Lindquist lab has identified a new yeast prion and shown that a segment of this protein also confers prionlike activity.

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According to Lindquist, «The new experiments provide an almost incontrovertible argument in favor» of the hypothesis that prions alone can be infectious — at least in yeast.

Further experiments in yeast and mice along these lines led Lindquist to propose a new, unifying hypothesis to explain the origin of the human prion disease and the mechanism of its toxicity.

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.

Although the yeast sup35 protein and the mammalian prion protein are not at all related to each other — the yeast pose no risk to consumers of bread or beer — the researchers think that in - depth analysis of the yeast prion - like elements and other proteins that help them fold up may lead to new approaches to therapies for neurodegenerative diseases.