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Interestingly, not all yeast prions have similar oligopeptide repeat motifs, indicating that distinct structures could confer prion properties to polypeptides that can aggregate.
Similarly, “variants” of yeast prions are explained by different stable conformation states of the corresponding prion proteins (Chien et al.
Although yeast prions have been studied for almost ten years, very little is known about their biological significance.
Without DNA or RNA to issue biochemical commands, abnormal prions shouldn't be able to convert normal prions to the infectious state, but that's exactly what they do (Box 1).
But do prions cause these diseases?