Leucine zippers : transcription factors / Helen C. Hurst.

London ; San Diego : Academic Press, [1996], ©1996.

72 pages, 3 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm.

3rd ed.

"2nd edition published as Protein Profile volume 2 issue 2 : Transcription Factor 1: bZIP proteins, 1995"--T.p. verso.

Copy 1. Supplier/Donor: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-72).

What is a leucine zipper? -- What do bZIP factors do? -- Sequences of bZIP proteins -- fos proteins -- jun proteins -- C/EBP proteins -- PAR domain proteins -- CREB/ATF proteins -- ATF2 proteins -- ATF4 proteins -- -- NF-E2 proteins -- Maf proteins -- Yeast AP1 proteins -- Plant-derived bZIP proteins -- Amino acid biosynthesis control factors -- Other bZIP proteins -- Amino acid biosynthesis control factors -- Other bZIP proteins -- DNA-binding sites -- Three-dimensional structure of bZIP domains -- The basic domain and specific DNA binding by bZIP factors -- DNA bending and binding by bZIP factors -- General features of the leucine zipper domain --Three-dimensional structures of other domains -- Heterodimerization -- Other functional domains -- Nuclear localisation -- Activation domains -- Repression domains -- Covalent derivatization sites -- Other interacting proteins -- Methods.