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Table 4.

Fungal amyloid-based prions known to date

Prion	Protein	Function
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
[PSI⁺]	Sup35 (eRF3)	Translation termination factor
[URE3]	Ure2	Regulator in nitrogen metabolism
[RNQ⁺], or [PIN⁺]	Rnq1	?
[SWI⁺]	Swi1	Chromatin remodeling factor
[OCT⁺]	Cyc8	Transcriptional corepressor
[MOT3⁺]	Mot3	Transcriptional repressor
[MOD⁺]	Mod5	Transfer RNA isopentenyltransferase
[NUP100⁺]	Nup100	FG-nucleoporin
[LSB⁺]	Lsb2	Cytoskeletal assembly protein
Podospora anserina
[Het^S]	Het-s	Cytoplasmic incompatibility