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The Q/N-rich domains in yeast prions are transferable in that, when fused to a heterologous polypeptide, they confer prion properties to this polypeptide.
These features bare resemblances to mitochondrial degeneration in other neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease [ 79 ] , prion disease [ 80 ] , Rett syndrome [ 81 ] , excitotoxic neuronal death [ 70 ] and Mn ++superoxide dismutase (SOD2) deletion [ 82 ] . Although in none of these conditions are sufficiently detailed observations available for a comprehensive comparison, MVISE could play a role in other neurodegenerative disorders.
This observation is very intriguing, especially in light of a recent finding that prion conformation of some proteins is required for formation of prions by the other proteins.
These “variants” of yeast prions are analogous to different prion “strains” of PrP Sc , which cause versions of the disease with different incubation periods and different patterns of brain pathology.
In some strains, cells with [PSI + ] prion demonstrated better survival than their non-prion counterparts in the presence of inhibitors of translation or microtubules, heavy metals, low pH, and other deleterious conditions, which of course gives a strong advantage to the [PSI + ] cells.