Fungal prion
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fungal-prion-177-4799223
title:
Fungal prion
text:
A fungal prion is a prion that infects hosts which are fungi. Fungal prions are naturally occurring proteins that can switch between multiple, structurally distinct conformations, at least one of which is self-propagating and transmissible to other prions. This transmission of protein state represents an epigenetic phenomenon where information is encoded in the protein structure itself, instead of in nucleic acids. Several prion-forming proteins have been identified in fungi, primarily in the ye
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Prion that infects fungal hosts
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal_prion
date created:
2006-01-24T15:09:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T01:44:28Z
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