Bzip

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Bzip (Basic leucine zipper) is a eukaryotic transcription factor. It consists of 2 regions. One basic region which interacts with DNA, and the 'zipper' region. This region contains a leucine every 7 residues, forming an alpha-helix and is involved in dimerisation.

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