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Prions as adaptive conduits of memory and inheritance
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Changes in protein conformation drive most biological processes, but none have seized the imagination of scientists and the public alike as have the self-replicating conformations of prions. Prions transmit lethal neurodegenerative diseases by means of the food chain. However, self-replicating protein conformations can also constitute molecular memories that transmit genetic information. Here, we showcase definitive evidence for the prion hypothesis and discuss examples in which prion-encoded heritable information has been harnessed during evolution to confer selective advantages. We then describe situations in which prion-enciphered events might have essential roles in long-term memory formation, transcriptional memory and genome-wide expression patterns.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Shorter, J., & Lindquist, S.
- Affiliations
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Shorter, James
- Lindquist, Susan
- ORCID
- Shorter, James
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Genetics
- Published
- 2005-06
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 435-450
- ISSN
- 1471-0056 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0064
- OpenAlex
- W2141566674
- Cited by
- 555
- References
- 160
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 2.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature Reviews Genetics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Charles A. King Trust
- National Institutes of Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Prion Diseases and Protein Misfolding
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
- Keywords
- prions, protein conformation, prion hypothesis, molecular memory, evolution, neurodegenerative diseases, long-term memory, transcriptional memory, gene expression patterns
- MeSH terms
- Amyloid, Animals, Biological Evolution, Humans, Memory, Peptide Termination Factors, Prions, Protein Structure, Tertiary, Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
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