Cox B
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York 11724.
Curr Biol. 1994 Aug 1;4(8):744-8. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(00)00167-6.
Some non-Mendelian genetic factors in yeast have properties reminiscent of prions; inheritance of these prion-like factors may involve the autocatalytic conversion of a protein from one metastable state to another.