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Chaperones and prions

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Prion diseases -- Prions as self-propagating amyloids -- Yeast prions as protein-based heritable elements -- Prion detection -- Crucial role of the chaperone protein Hsp104 in the propagation of yeast prions -- Chaperone-mediated fragmentation turns amyloids into infectious or heritable prions -- Effects of the Hsp70 and Hsp40 proteins on yeast prions -- Other modulators of prion formation and propagation: cytoskeleton and ubiquitin system.…”
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