Kinetic and spectroscopic evidence show that certain bZIP peptides favour a DMA binding mechanism in which monomers sequentially assemble into a dimer at their DMA target site.
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Metallo, S., Schepartz, A. Certain bZIP peptides bind DMA sequentially as monomers and dimerize on the DMA. Nat Struct Mol Biol 4, 115–117 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb0297-115
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