Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
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...avidin can be added to your sample. Any free biotin-binding sites on this complex can bind to your biotinylated... proteome that are biotinylated. In E.coli for example, the BPL, BirA, is responsible for biotinylating...plague these animals even if their diet was being supplemented with biotin. Thus something in the egg white...discovered in the 1960s, strepavidin. The Biotin-avidin complex can then be used and/or manipulated for a scientist...immunoprecipitation experiments. Biotinylated proteins or complexes can be easily purified using columns or beads ... added to the reaction for easy detection. The multiple biotin binding sites found on avidin are also ...This creates a large meshwork of biotin-avidin complexes bound to your protein of interest leading to amplification...