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(Sackler NAS Colloquium) Self-Perpetuating Structural States in Biology, Disease, and Genetics

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Publication Year:2002


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Front Matter i-vi  
Self-perpetuating structural states in biology, disease, and genetics 1-1 (skim)
Transmission of prions 2-7 (skim)
Conservation of a portion of the S. cerevisiae Ure2p prion domain that interacts with the full-length protein 8-15 (skim)
Interactions among prions and prion strains in yeast 16-23 (skim)
Identification of benzothiazoles as potential polyglutamine aggregation inhibitors of Huntington 24-30 (skim)
Chaperoning brain degeneration 31-35 (skim)
Molecular chaperones as modulators of polyglutamine protein aggregation and toxicity 36-42 (skim)
Studies of the aggregation of mutant proteins in vitro provide insights into the genetics of amyloid diseases 43-50 (skim)
Sequence-dependent denaturation energetics: A major determinant in amyloid disease diversity 51-56 (skim)
The insulation of genes from external enhancers and silencing chromatin 57-61 (skim)
Histone H3 lysine 4 methylation is mediated by Set1 and promotes maintenance of active chromatin states in fission yeast 62-69 (skim)
Changes in the middle region of Sup35 profoundly alter the nature of epigenetic inheritance for the yeast prion [PSI+] 70-77 (skim)
Heritable chromatin structure: Mapping memory in histones H3 and H4 78-85 (skim)
Does heterochromatin protein 1 always follow code? 86-93 (skim)
Self-perpetuating epigenetic pili switches in bacteria 94-100 (skim)
Histone H3 variants specify modes of chromatin assembly 101-108 (skim)
Induction and maintenance of nonsymmetrical DNA methylation in Neurospora 109-114 (skim)
Locus-specific control of asymmetric and CpNpG methylation by the DRM and CMT3 methyltransferase genes 115-122 (skim)
RNA-directed DNA methylation in Arabidopsis 123-134 (skim)

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