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Leucine scissors
A supersecondary structure of some DNA-binding proteins; a coiled coil of two parallel -helices. Each is of about 30 residues in length and contains leucine residues at every seventh position, which places them all to the same side of the helix. The side chains interact with non-polar side chains of the other helix to hold the two together by hydrophobic forces.
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