Inntags: Innovative Protein Epitope Tagging
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...Short epitope tags like FLAG, HA, and Myc can adopt a number of different conformations and thus potentially...of GFP fusions to inntags or traditional FLAG, HA, and Myc tags. Impressively, IT6-GFP did not reduce yeast...observed with IT5 and IT6 fusions. In contrast, Flag and HA tags had especially detrimental effects on cell...First described in the 1980s, protein tags are now one of the most useful items in a scientist’s toolbox...major caveat - a tag may interfere with protein localization and/or function, so each tagged protein must ...innocuous tags” (inntags) less likely to alter a protein’s properties.
Why do we need new epitope tags?
Short... looking to a tag a protein, inntags IT5 and IT6 are a great place to start. These tags are easy to use...