Yeast Cells Can Clear Amyloid (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Yeast Cells Can Clear Amyloid

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When colonies of baker's yeast cells that contain clumped prion proteins (colonies of white cells on left) are stressed by high temperatures, some can convert the aggregated prion proteins to the non-clumping form of the protein (red cells in the colonies the right).

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Serio laboratory/ University of Arizona molecular and cellular biology

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