NR ADGN
AU DePace,A.H.; Weissman,J.S.
TI Origins and kinetic consequences of diversity in Sup35 yeast prion fibers
QU Nature Structural Biology 2002 May; 9(5): 389-96
PT journal article
AB A remarkable feature of prions is that infectious particles composed of the same prion protein can give rise to different phenotypes. This strain phenomenon suggests that a single prion protein can adopt multiple infectious conformations. Here we use a novel single fiber growth assay to examine the heterogeneity of amyloid fibers formed by the yeast Sup35 prion protein. Sup35 spontaneously forms multiple, distinct and faithfully propagating fiber types, which differ dramatically both in their degrees of polarity and overall growth rates. Both in terms of the number of distinct self-propagating fiber types, as well as the ability of these differences to dictate the rate of prion growth, this diversity is well suited to account for the range of prion strain phenotypes observed in vivo.
MH Amyloid/chemistry/metabolism/ultrastructure; Fungal Proteins/*chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure; Kinetics; Microscopy, Atomic Force; Prions/*chemistry/*metabolism/ultrastructure; Protein Structure, Quaternary; Structure-Activity Relationship; Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.; Yeasts/*chemistry
AD Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Cellular Pharmacology, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California, 94143-0450, USA
SP englisch
PO USA