<p>The basic-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors [<cite idref="PUB00004967"/>, <cite idref="PUB00001084"/>] of eukaryotes are proteins that contain a basic region mediating sequence-specific DNA-binding, followed by a leucine zipper region (see <db_xref db="INTERPRO" dbkey="IPR002158"/>), which is required for dimerization.</p> Basic leucine zipper