Plasmids 101: Biotinylation
Type
Blog Post
Published
Nov. 15, 2018, 1:50 p.m.
...biotinylating proteins with BirA.
You can find plasmids that contain both AviTag and BirA at Addgene!
...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 ... sample. Any free biotin-binding sites on this complex can bind to your biotinylated antibody. This creates...creates a large meshwork of biotin-avidin complexes bound to your protein of interest leading to amplification...This strategy is referred to as the Avidin-Biotin Complex (ABC) immunohistochemistry (IHC). For more information.... PubMed PMID: 7479014. PubMed Central PMCID: PMC307283.
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