Fleeting Amyloid-like Forms of Rim4 Ensure Meiotic Fidelity.

Ford, Alice Flynn; Shorter, James · Cell · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Berchowitz et al. establish that transient amyloid-like forms of Rim4, a yeast RNA-binding protein with a predicted prion domain, translationally repress cyclin CLB3 in meiosis I, thereby ensuring homologous chromosome segregation. These findings suggest that prion domains might enable formation of tightly regulated amyloid-like effectors in diverse functional settings.

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