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Heritable activity: a prion that propagates by covalent autoactivation

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Research has been conducted on infectious proteins prions. The authors demonstrate that yeast protease B is a prion, which is infectious and reversibly curable, and which is induced via pro-protease overexpression.

Author: Wickner, Reed B., Roberts, B. Tibor
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication Name: Genes & Development
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-9369
Year: 2003
Enzymes, Other Basic Organic Chemical Manufacturing, Gene expression, Prions, Prions (Proteins)

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Control of cell number by Drosophila FOXO: downstream and feedback regulation of the insulin receptor pathway

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The authors have investigated Drosophila FOXO forkhead-related transcription factor, a component of insulin signaling cascade. The authors discuss the identification and functional characterization of dFOXO.

Author: Tjian, Robert, Puig, Oscar, Marr, Michael T., Ruhf, M. Laure
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication Name: Genes & Development
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0890-9369
Year: 2003
Growth, Genetic regulation, Drosophila, Insulin, Company growth

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Subjects list: United States, Analysis, Physiological aspects, Genetic aspects, Cells (Biology), Cells, Genetic research
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