Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
...Immunosorbent Assay)
Southern/Northern blotting
Cell surface labelling
Attaching polypeptides to a substrate
Flow...carboxyl groups to organic acids to produce important cellular metabolites. Biotin acts as a carboxyl carrier...chemically. Enzymatic biotinylation occurs naturally in cells and is the process by which biotin is covalently...sequestering biotin from being absorbed. In 1940 Esmond E. Snell was able to purify the protein responsible for binding...the chicken, “Avian”, egg it was purified from. Snell later confirmed that avidin was indeed the culprit... for use in immunohistochemistry and antibody labelling. In these experiments, biotin is added to a primary...
Flow cytometry/fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS)
In situ hybridization
Methods for biotinylating...