A Non-Q/N-Rich Prion Domain of a Foreign Prion, [Het-s], Can Propagate as a Prion in Yeast

Structure of the cross-β spine of amyloid-like fibrils

Rebecca A. Nelson, M.R. Sawaya, Melinda Balbirnie et al. · Nature · 2005 · 2.2K citations · Full text

Cross-β Spine, Protein Folding, Structural Biology +3

Glutamine repeats as polar zippers: their possible role in inherited neurodegenerative diseases.

M. F. Perutz, T. Johnson, Masashi Suzuki et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1994 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Protein Assembly, Molecular Biology, Glutamine Repeats +21

Role of the Chaperone Protein Hsp104 in Propagation of the Yeast Prion-Like Factor [ <i>psi</i> ⁺ ]

Yury O. Chernoff, Susan Lindquist, Bun‐ichiro Ono et al. · Science · 1995 · 1K citations

Nucleated Conformational Conversion and the Replication of Conformational Information by a Prion Determinant

Tricia R. Serio, Anil G. Cashikar, Anthony S. Kowal et al. · Science · 2000 · 954 citations

Protein Assembly, Conformational Information, Molecular Biology +16

Conformational variations in an infectious protein determine prion strain differences

Motomasa Tanaka, Peter Chien, Nariman Naber et al. · Nature · 2004 · 773 citations

Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Folding, Medicine +9