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Leucine Zippers

Known as: Leucine Zipper, Zipper, Leucine, Zippers, Leucine 
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… 
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Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
A leucine zipper-like sequence from the cytoplasmic tail of the HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein binds and perturbs lipid bilayers.
HIV-1 transmembrane envelope glycoprotein (gp41) has an unusually long cytoplasmic domain that has secondary associations with… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Probing the folding mechanism of a leucine zipper peptide by stopped-flow circular dichroism spectroscopy.
Leucine zipper peptides provide simple model systems for studying both the intramolecular and intermolecular interactions that… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
A gene that is related to SRY and is expressed in the testes encodes a leucine zipper-containing protein
SRY-related cDNA encoding a protein with a high-mobility-group (HMG) box and a leucine zipper motif, which was designated SOX-LZ… 
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Protein destabilization by electrostatic repulsions in the two‐stranded α‐helical coiled‐coil/leucine zipper
The destabilizing effect of electrostatic repulsions on protein stability has been studied by using synthetic two‐stranded… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Activation of PKN, a novel 120-kDa protein kinase with leucine zipper-like sequences, by unsaturated fatty acids and by limited proteolysis.
PKN, a novel protein kinase with catalytic domain homologous to PKC family and unique amino terminal leucine zipper-like… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
Cloning and expression of a mammalian Na+/amino acid cotransporter with sequence similarity to Na+/glucose cotransporters.
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
The BZLF1 protein of EBV has a coiled coil dimerisation domain without a heptad leucine repeat but with homology to the C/EBP leucine zipper.
The EBV transactivator protein BZLF1 can bind many sites in the EBV genome, most of which have homology to a consensus AP-1 site… 
Highly Cited
1991
Highly Cited
1991
Periodicity of amide proton exchange rates in a coiled-coil leucine zipper peptide.
The two-stranded coiled-coil motif, which includes leucine zippers, is a simple protein structure that is well suited for studies… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Secondary structure of a leucine zipper determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Previous work has shown that a synthetic peptide corresponding to the leucine zipper region of the yeast transcriptional… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Involvement of the 'leucine zipper' region in the oligomerization and transforming activity of human c-myc protein
c-Myc plays a part in the regulation of important cellular processes such as growth, differentiation and neoplastic… 
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