Antibodies 101: Affinity Tags
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Blog Post
Published
Sept. 19, 2023, 1 p.m.
...isolate a protein, there must be a special feature about that protein that no other protein in the expression...affinity tags can make protein purification a cinch. Types of affinity tags, the proteins they work best attached...common tags available.
Maltose binding protein
Maltose binding protein (MBP) is a 45 kDa tag which can be ...solubility of the tagged protein (Fox and Waugh, 2002). The tag can also be proteolytically cleaved after purification...unlikely to perturb protein function. This makes it amenable to being left on your protein of interest, especially...Wingfield, P. T. (Eds.). (2001). Current Protocols in Protein Science. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https:/...Maltose-Binding Protein as a Solubility Enhancer. In P. E. Vaillancourt, E. coli Gene Expression Protocols (Vol....