What is the structure of the leucine zipper and its target sequence?

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: The leucine zipper is a leucine-rich amino acid sequence that promotes dimerization due to interactions between hydrophobic leucines in different motifs. They bind to inverted DNA repeats with no spacing between them.

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