The Strep-tag system for one-step purification and high-affinity detection or capturing of proteins

Nature Protocols

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1528-1535

  Schmidt, Thomas G M ^a   Skerra, Arne ^b  

^a IBA GmbH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; GENE PRODUCT; HYBRID PROTEIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; OLIGOPEPTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; STREP TAG II; STREPTAVIDIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL LYSATE; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AFFINITY LABELS; BINDING SITES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; IMMUNOASSAY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA;

EID: 34250766201     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2007.209     Document Type: Article

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