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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019

A bacteria-based genetic assay detects prion formation.

Eleanor Fleming, Andy H Yuan, Danielle M Heller, Ann Hochschild

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

18 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Yeast Prions: Discovery, Nature, Cellular Manipulation and Implication.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025
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  5. Systematic analysis of nonprogrammed frameshift suppression inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  8. Prions in Microbes: The Least in the Most.Journal of microbiology (Seoul, Korea) · 2023
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  9. Measuring prion propagation in single bacteria elucidates a mechanism of loss.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  15. Phase separation by ssDNA binding protein controlled via protein-protein and protein-DNA interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Eleanor FlemingDepartment of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institue, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Andy H YuanDepartment of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institue, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Danielle M HellerDepartment of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institue, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115.
Ann HochschildDepartment of Microbiology, Blavatnik Institue, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115 ann_hochschild@hms.harvard.edu.
Boston VA Research Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Amyloid aggregation and prion formation in bacteriaR01GM115941 · NIGMS · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI HOCHSCHILD, ANN · 2016 to 2019
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115941
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prions are infectious, self-propagating protein aggregates that are notorious for causing devastating neurodegenerative diseases in mammals. Recent evidence supports the existence of prions in bacteria. However, the evaluation of candidate bacterial prion-forming proteins has been hampered by the lack of genetic assays for detecting their conversion to an aggregated prion conformation. Here we describe a bacteria

Indexed as

Genetic TechniquesCampylobacterEscherichia coliGenes, ReporterPrionsTranscription, GeneticPrionsEscherichia coliprionsprotein-based hereditySSBSup35

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PMID30782808
PMCPMC6410773
OpenAlexW2918072943

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