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The principal changes are the substitution of either tyrosine or phenylalanine for leucine at the beginning of the third heptad repeat and the addition of a second proline adjacent to the first in the second heptad repeat.
These analogous steps in different pathways were originally used in formulating the recruitment hypothesis for evolutionary acquisition of new function [ 37], and it is interesting that the citramalate synthase gene shown in M. jannaschii had previously been annotated as α-isopropylmalate synthase (which catalyzes the initial step of leucine biosynthesis).
The most abundant amino acids in transmembrane regions are leucine, isoleucine, valine, phenylalanine, alanine, glycine, serine, and threonine.
GFP-C/EBPα truncated of its leucine zipper (Fig.
Whereas only the human sequence uses arginine at this position, all other taxa use a large hydrophobic amino acid - either tyrosine or leucine; note that even an arginine side chain has a substantial hydrophobic segment bearing its terminal guanidino group.