A monovalent streptavidin with a single femtomolar biotin binding site

Nature Methods

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 267-273

  Howarth, Mark ^a   Chinnapen, Daniel J F ^a   Gerrow, Kimberly ^b   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^c   Grandy, Melanie R ^a   Kelleher, Neil L ^c   El Husseini, Alaa ^b   Ting, Alice Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTIN; CELL PROTEIN; NEUROLIGIN 1; STREPTAVIDIN; TETRAMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOTINYLATION; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NERVE CELL; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BIOTIN; BIOTINYLATION; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; STREPTAVIDIN; SYNAPSES; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33645283107     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth861     Document Type: Article

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