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Heat Repeat Sequences
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Heat Repeat Sequences (Huntingtons Disease) 
A series of three to four amino acids repeated along the length of a protein; acronym HEAT comes from four proteins in which these repeated sequences have been found. The normal huntingtin protein contains 36 HEAT-like repeats, which fold up into a spiral structure and may serve as docking sites for other proteins. Also referred to as HEAT domains.
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