Antibodies 101: ChIP
Type
Blog Post
Published
March 10, 2022, 3:25 p.m.
... treated so that the protein and DNA are no longer bound, and the DNA can then be isolated and studied...proteins of interest to any DNA they were bound to (2) fragmented the DNA (3) used antibodies to specifically...your antibody:protein:DNA complexes and finally (5) isolated the DNA from your antibody:protein:DNA complexes...preserve more of the protein:DNA complexes. Once you’ve finished fragmenting the DNA, spin down the samples...interactions, and can give valuable insight into DNA expression and protein interactions, including epigenetic...proteins are not likely to remain attached to the DNA throughout the sample processing and therefore will...modifying proteins, which bind quite strongly to DNA, crosslinking may not be necessary. This is known...