The interface between self-assembling erythropoietin receptor transmembrane segments corresponds to a membrane-spanning leucine zipper.

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Structural and functional studies recently indicated that the erythropoietin receptor exists as a preassembled homodimer whose activation by ligand binding requires self-interaction of its transmembrane segment. Here, we probed the interface formed by the transmembrane segments by asparagine-scanning mutagenesis in a natural membrane. We show that this interface is based on a leucine zipper-like heptad repeat...

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