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Yeast prions assembly and propagation: contributions of the prion and non-prion moieties and the nature of assemblies.

Mehdi Kabani, Ronald Melki

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Review in Prion. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Prion-Dependent Lethality ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. How Big Is the Yeast Prion Universe?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  4. Extracellular Vesicles and the Propagation of Yeast Prions.Current topics in microbiology and immunology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Mehdi KabaniLaboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Mehdi.Kabani@lebs.cnrs-gif.fr
Ronald Melki
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRLaboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Yeast prions are self-perpetuating protein aggregates that are at the origin of heritable and transmissible non-Mendelian phenotypic traits. Among these, [PSI+], [URE3] and [PIN+] are the most well documented prions and arise from the assembly of Sup35p, Ure2p and Rnq1p, respectively, into insoluble fibrillar assemblies. Fibril assembly depends on the presence of N- or C-terminal prion domains (PrDs) which are not homologous in sequence but share unusual amino-acid compositions, such as enrichment in polar residues (glutamines and asparagines) or the presence of oligopeptide repeats. Purified PrDs form amyloid fibrils that can convert prion-free cells to the prion state upon transformation. Nonetheless, isolated PrDs and full-length prion proteins have different aggregation, structural and infectious properties. In addition, mutations in the "non-prion" domains (non-PrDs) of Sup35p, Ure2p and Rnq1p were shown to affect their prion properties in vitro and in vivo. Despite these evidences, the implication of the functional non-PrDs in fibril assembly and prion propagation has been mostly overlooked. In this review, we discuss the contribution of non-PrDs to prion assemblies, and the structure-function relationship in prion infectivity in the light of recent findings on Sup35p and Ure2p assembly into infectious fibrils from our laboratory and others.

Indexed as

Amino Acid SequenceAmyloidFungal ProteinsModels, MolecularMolecular Sequence DataMutationPrionsProtein Structure, TertiaryYeastsAmyloidFungal ProteinsPrions

Identifiers

PMID22052349
PMCPMC4012403
OpenAlexW2051887619

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