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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
21
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-12-3
pubmed:abstractText
The leucine zipper proteins are a group of transcriptional regulators that dimerize to form a DNA binding domain. It has been proposed that this dimerization results from the hydrophobic association of the alpha-helices of two leucine zipper monomers into a coiled coil. We propose a model for a coiled coil based on a periodic hydrophobic-hydrophilic amino acid motif found in the leucine zipper regions of 11 transcriptional regulatory proteins. This model predicts the symmetrical formation of secondary hydrogen bonds between the polar side chains of one helix and the peptide carbonyls of the opposite chain, supplementing the interactions between hydrophobic side chains. Physical modeling (CPK) and in vacuo molecular mechanics calculations of the stability of the GCN4 leucine zipper coiled coil configured in accordance with this model demonstrate a greater stability for this conformer than for a conformer configured according to a current hydrophobic model. Molecular dynamics simulations show similar stability of the two models in vacuo but a higher stability of the hydrophobic model in water.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
1
pubmed:volume
88
pubmed:geneSymbol
C/EPB, CREB, GCN4, HBP1, Opaque2, XPB-1, YAP1, fos, jun
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9488-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-19
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Do interhelical side chain-backbone hydrogen bonds participate in formation of leucine zipper coiled coils?
pubmed:affiliation
Brain and Development Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.