Leucine zipper
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leucine-zipper-269-17299611
title:
Leucine zipper
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A leucine zipper is a common three-dimensional structural motif in proteins. They were first described by Landschulz and collaborators in 1988 when they found that an enhancer binding protein had a very characteristic 30-amino acid segment and the display of these amino acid sequences on an idealized alpha helix revealed a periodic repetition of leucine residues at every seventh position over a distance covering eight helical turns. The polypeptide segments containing these periodic arrays of le
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DNA-binding structural motif
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2023-10-25T05:58:06Z
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