Edskes, H. K., McCann, L. M. Hebert, A. M. and Wickner, R. B. (2009)
Prion variants and
species barriers among Saccharomyces Ure2 proteinsGenetics 181, 1159 - 1167.
Nemecek, J., Nakayashiki, T. and Wickner, R. B. (2009) A prion of yeast metacaspase homolog (Mca1p) detected by a genetic screen. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106, 1892 - 1896.
Kryndushkin, D. S., Shewmaker, F. and Wickner, R. B. (2008) Curing of the [URE3] prion by Btn2p, a Batten disease-related protein. EMBO J. 27, 2725 - 2735.
Wickner, R. B., Shewmaker, F. Kryndushkin, D., and Edskes, H. E. (2008) Protein inheritance (prions) based on parallel in-register beta-sheet amyloid structures. Bioessays 30, 955 - 964.
Shewmaker, F., Ross, E. D., Tycko, R. and Wickner, R. B. (2008) Amyloid of shuffled prion domains that form prions have a parallel in-register beta-sheet structure. Biochemistry 47, 4000 - 4007.
Wickner, R. B., Dyda, F. and Tycko, R. (2008) Amyloid of Rnq1p, the basis of the [PIN ] prion, has a parallel in-register beta sheet structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 2403 - 2408.
Baxa, U., Wickner, R. B., Steven, A. C., Anderson, D. E., Marekov, L. N., Yau, W.-M. and Tycko, R. (2007) Characterization of beta-sheet structure in Ure2p1-89 yeast prion fibrils by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. Biochemistry 46, 13149 - 13162.
Pierce MM, Baxa U, Steven AC, Bax A, Wickner RB Is the prion domain of soluble Ure2p unstructured? Biochemistry (44): 321-8, 2005. [Full Text/Abstract]
Ross ED, Edskes HK, Terry MJ, Wickner RB Primary sequence independence for prion formation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (102): 12825-30, 2005. [Full Text/Abstract]
Ross ED, Minton A, Wickner RB Prion domains: sequences, structures and interactions. Nat Cell Biol (7): 1039-44, 2005. [Full Text/Abstract]
Brachmann A, Baxa U, Wickner RB Prion generation in vitro: amyloid of Ure2p is infectious. EMBO J (24): 3082-92, 2005. [Full Text/Abstract]
Nakayashiki T, Kurtzman CP, Edskes HK, Wickner RB Yeast prions [URE3] and [PSI ] are diseases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (102): 10575-80, 2005. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wickner RB, Edskes HK, Ross ED, Pierce MM, Baxa U, Brachmann A, Shewmaker F Prion genetics: new rules for a new kind of gene. Annu Rev Genet (38): 681-707, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Baxa U, Taylor KL, Steven AC, Wickner RB Prions of Saccharomyces and Podospora. Contrib Microbiol (11): 50-71, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wickner RB, Edskes HK, Ross ED, Pierce MM, Shewmaker F, Baxa U, Brachmann A Prions of yeast are genes made of protein: amyloids and enzymes. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol (69): 489-96, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wickner RB, Edskes HK, Roberts BT, Baxa U, Pierce MM, Ross ED, Brachmann A Prions: proteins as genes and infectious entities. Genes Dev (18): 470-85, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wickner RB Edskes HK Roberts BT Baxa U Pierce MM Ross ED Brachmann A Prions: proteins as genes and infectious entities. Genes Dev (18): 470-85, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Ross ED, Baxa U, Wickner RB Scrambled prion domains form prions and amyloid. Mol Cell Biol (24): 7206-13, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Roberts BT, Moriyama H, Wickner RB URE3] prion propagation is abolished by a mutation of the primary cytosolic Hsp70 of budding yeast. Yeast (21): 107-17, 2004. [Full Text/Abstract]
Baxa U, Taylor KL, Wall JS, Simon MN, Cheng N, Wickner RB, Steven AC Architecture of Ure2p prion filaments: the N-terminal domains form a central core fiber. J Biol Chem (278): 43717-27, 2003. [Full Text/Abstract]
Roberts BT Wickner RB Heritable activity: a prion that propagates by covalent autoactivation. Genes Dev (17): 2083-7, 2003. [Full Text/Abstract]
Edskes HK Wickner RB Conservation of a portion of the S. cerevisiae Ure2p prion domain that interacts with the full-length protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (99 Suppl 4): 16384-91, 2002. [Full Text/Abstract]
Naitow H Tang J Canady M Wickner RB Johnson JE L-A virus at 3.4 A resolution reveals particle architecture and mRNA decapping mechanism. Nat Struct Biol (9): 725-8, 2002. [Full Text/Abstract]
Baxa U Speransky V Steven AC Wickner RB Mechanism of inactivation on prion conversion of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ure2 protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (99): 5253-60, 2002. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wickner RB Edskes HK Roberts BT Pierce M Baxa U Prions of yeast as epigenetic phenomena: high protein Adv Genet (46): 485-525, 2002. [Full Text/Abstract]
Searfoss A Dever TE Wickner R Linking the 3'' poly(A) tail to the subunit joining step of translation initiation: relations of Pab1p, eukaryotic translation initiation factor 5b (Fun12p), and Ski2p-Slh1p. Mol Cell Biol (21): 4900-8, 2001. [Full Text/Abstract]
Umland TC Taylor KL Rhee S Wickner RB Davies DR The crystal structure of the nitrogen regulation fragment of the yeast prion protein Ure2p. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (98): 1459-64, 2001. [Full Text/Abstract]
Searfoss AM Wickner RB 3'' poly(A) is dispensable for translation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (97): 9133-7, 2000. [Full Text/Abstract]
Moriyama H Edskes HK Wickner RB URE3] prion propagation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: requirement for chaperone Hsp104 and curing by overexpressed chaperone Ydj1p. Mol Cell Biol (20): 8916-22, 2000. [Full Text/Abstract]
Taylor KL, Cheng N, Williams RW, Steven AC, Wickner RB Prion domain initiation of amyloid formation in vitro from native Ure2p. Science (283): 1339-43, 1999. [Full Text/Abstract]
Edskes HK, Gray VT, Wickner RB The [URE3] prion is an aggregated form of Ure2p that can be cured by overexpression of Ure2p fragments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (96): 1498-503, 1999. [Full Text/Abstract]
Masison DC, Maddelein ML, Wickner RB The prion model for [URE3] of yeast: spontaneous generation and requirements for propagation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (94): 12503-8, 1997. [Full Text/Abstract]
Masison DC Blanc A Ribas JC Carroll K Sonenberg N Wickner RB Decoying the cap- mRNA degradation system by a double-stranded RNA virus and poly(A)- mRNA surveillance by a yeast antiviral system. Mol Cell Biol (15): 2763-71, 1995. [Full Text/Abstract]
Masison DC, Wickner RB Prion-inducing domain of yeast Ure2p and protease resistance of Ure2p in prion-containing cells. Science (270): 93-5, 1995. [Full Text/Abstract]
Wickner RB URE3] as an altered URE2 protein: evidence for a prion analog in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Science (264): 566-9, 1994. [Full Text/Abstract]