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8 Protein Tags Explained

Posted by The Protein Man on Jun 10, 2014 10:00:00 AM
Basically, protein tags are peptide sequences that are attached to proteins to facilitate easy detection and purification of expressed proteins. In addition, they can also be used to identify potential binding partners for your protein of interest.
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Topics: Protein Purification

How to generate an antibody affinity column for protein purification?

Posted by The Protein Man on Oct 23, 2013 10:08:00 AM

How to we immobilize our antibody over a column to extract the antibody's specific antigen from different samples?

 

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Topics: Protein Purification, Antibody Production

Protein Immunoprecipitations: Which method to use?

Posted by The Protein Man on May 14, 2013 1:40:00 PM

Traditional Immunoprecipitation procedure can be divided into four key steps (Figure 1):

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Topics: Protein Purification

Sepharose or Agarose for protein resins, which should I choose?

Posted by The Protein Man on Apr 16, 2013 1:17:00 PM

The answer is simple. It really doesn't matter as they are in fact the same.

Sepharose is a tradename for a crosslinked, beaded-form of a polysaccharide polymer material extracted from seaweed.  Its brand name is derived from Separation-Pharmacia-Agarose.

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Topics: Protein Purification

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