GO:0045857: obsolete negative regulation of molecular function, epigenetic (Biological process)

"OBSOLETE. Any heritable epigenetic process that stops, prevents, or reduces the frequency, rate or extent of protein function by self-perpetuating conformational conversions of normal proteins in healthy cells. This is distinct from, though mechanistically analogous to, disease states associated with prion propagation and amyloidogenesis. A single protein, if it carries a glutamine/asparagine-rich ('prion') domain, can sometimes stably exist in at least two distinct physical states, each associated with a different phenotype; propagation of one of these traits is achieved by a self-perpetuating change in the protein from one form to the other, mediated by conformational changes in the glutamine/asparagine-rich domain. Prion domains are both modular and transferable to other proteins, on which they can confer a heritable epigenetic alteration of function; existing bioinformatics data indicate that they are rare in non-eukarya, but common in eukarya." [GOC:dph, GOC:go_curators, GOC:tb]


There are 91 sequences with this label.

Enriched clusters
Name Species % in cluster p-value corrected p-value action
Cluster_249 Solanum tuberosum Agria 1.1 % 0.00928 0.04052
Cluster_246 Solanum tuberosum Agria 1.79 % 0.005719 0.043305
Sequences (91) (download table)

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