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ArticleJournal of virology2005

Investigation of the multimerization region of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) protein K-bZIP: the proposed leucine zipper region encodes a multimerization domain with an unusual structure.

Salama Al Mehairi, Eleanora Cerasoli, Alison J Sinclair

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Article in Journal of virology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Salama Al MehairiSchool of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, United Kingdom.
Eleanora Cerasoli
Alison J Sinclair

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The K8 gene of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) shares many functional similarities with the BZLF1 gene of Epstein-Barr virus. The protein products of K8 and BZLF1, K-bZIP (RAP, K8) and Zta (BZLF1, ZEBRA, Z) have both been proposed to be members of the bZIP family of transcription factors, forming multimers via a coiled-coil motif termed a leucine zipper. Substantial evidence supporting this model for Zta is published. Here, we demonstrate that the proposed leucine zipper region of K-bZIP (amino acids 182 to 218) is required for multimer formation but that it does not fold as a coiled coil.

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Amino Acid SequenceBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsCarrier ProteinsDimerizationDNA-Binding ProteinsGene Expression Regulation, ViralHerpesvirus 8, HumanHumansLeucine ZippersMolecular Sequence DataRepressor ProteinsStructure-Activity RelationshipTrans-ActivatorsViral ProteinsBasic-Leucine Zipper Transcription FactorsBZLF1 protein, Herpesvirus 4, HumanCarrier ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsK8 protein, Human herpesvirus 8Repressor ProteinsTrans-ActivatorsViral Proteins

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PMID15919946
PMCPMC1143620

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