Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
The hunt for ancient prions: Archaeal prion-like domains form amyloids and substitute for yeast prion domains
T. Zajkowski, M. D. Lee, S. S. Mondal…·L. J. Rothschild
This paper identifies prion-like domains in Archaea that form amyloids and transmit non-Mendelian inheritance, suggesting prions existed in the last universal common ancestor.
DOI 10.1101/2020.07.20.212902