"Leucine Zippers" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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DNA-binding motifs formed from two alpha-helixes which intertwine for about eight turns into a coiled coil and then bifurcate to form Y shaped structures. Leucines occurring in heptad repeats end up on the same sides of the helixes and are adjacent to each other in the stem of the Y (the "zipper" region). The DNA-binding residues are located in the bifurcated region of the Y.
| Descriptor ID |
D016350
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G02.111.570.820.709.275.500.520
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| Concept/Terms |
Leucine Zippers- Leucine Zippers
- Leucine Zipper
- Zipper, Leucine
- Zippers, Leucine
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