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ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2018

Study of Amyloids Using Yeast.

Reed B Wickner, Dmitry Kryndushkin, Frank Shewmaker, Ryan McGlinchey, Herman K Edskes

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Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Antiprion systems in yeast cooperate to cure or prevent the generation of nearly all [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  5. Nonsense Mutations in the YeastInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Reed B WicknerLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. wickner@helix.nih.gov.
Dmitry KryndushkinLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Frank ShewmakerDepartment of Pharmacology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Ryan McGlincheyLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Herman K EdskesLaboratory of Biochemistry and Genetics, National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

Prions of Yeast and Anti-Prion SystemsZIADK024950 · NIDDK · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 2009 to 2025
$25.2M
Using naturally-occurring fungal prions as models of neurodegenerative protein misfoldingR35GM119790 · NIGMS · HENRY M. JACKSON FDN FOR THE ADV MIL/MED · PI FENG, YUANYI · 2016 to 2020
$1.4M
PRIONS OF YEASTZ01DK024943 · NIDDK · DIABETES, DIGESTIVE, KIDNEY DISEASES · PI WICKNER, REED B. · 1994 to 2006
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Intramural NIH HHS Z01 DK024943NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM119790
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We detail some of the genetic, biochemical, and physical methods useful in studying amyloids in yeast, particularly the yeast prions. These methods include cytoduction (cytoplasmic mixing), infection of cells with prion amyloids, use of green fluorescent protein fusions with amyloid-forming proteins for cytology, protein purification and amyloid formation, and electron microscopy of filaments.

Indexed as

Green Fluorescent ProteinsMicroscopy, Electron, TransmissionMutationPrion ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPrion ProteinsRecombinant ProteinsSaccharomyces cerevisiae ProteinsCytoductionElectron diffractionMass per lengthProtein transformation

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PMID29886541
PMCPMC7337124

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