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leucine zipper (medicine)


leucine zipper
<molecular biology> Motif found in certain DNA binding proteins. In a region of approximately 35 amino acids, every seventh is a leucine. This facilitates dimerisation of two such proteins to form a functional transcription factor.

Examples of proteins containing leucine zippers are products of the proto-oncogenes myc, fos and jun.