. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jun 29.

Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2018 Feb 9;57(8):1285–1292. doi: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01285

Table 1.

Yeast and fungal prions

Priori	Priori protein	Normal form function	Ref.
[URE3]	Ure2p	Nitrogen catabolite repression	(1)
[PSI+]	Sup35p	Translation termination	(1)
[PIN+]/[RNQ+]	Rnq1p	unknown	(83–85)
[Het-s]	HET-s	Heterokaryon incompatibility. The prion form carries out the normal function.	(86)
[BETA]	Prb1p	Vacuolar protease B. Activated (prion) form needed for sporulation and survival in stationary phase.	(5)
[SWI+]	Swi1p	Chromatin remodeling	(87)
[OCT+]	Cyc8p	Transcription co-repressor	(88)
[MOT+]	Mot3p	Transcription factor	(89)
[MOD+]	Mod5p	tRNA isopentenyltransferase	(90)