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coiled coil
Long regions of alpha helix wrap around each other in filamentous proteins which form rod-like homodimeric or oligomeric complexes; may serve as rigid structural spacers.
Specific
SNARE motif
General
alpha helix
heptad repeat
Properties
MISC-INFO: LENGTH 0.15 NM/AMINO_ACID_RESIDUE
References
Bourne HR.
Colon cancer. Consider the coiled coil....
Nature. 1991 May 16;351(6323):188-90.
PMID: 1645848