Inntags: small self-structured epitopes for innocuous protein tagging.

Georgieva, Maya V; Yahya, Galal; Codó, Laia; Ortiz, Raúl; Teixidó, Laura; Claros, José; Jara, Ricardo; Jara, Mònica et al. · Nat Methods · 2015

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

Protein tagging is widely used in approaches ranging from affinity purification to fluorescence-based detection in live cells. However, an intrinsic limitation of tagging is that the native function of the protein may be compromised or even abolished by the presence of the tag. Here we describe and characterize a set of small, innocuous protein tags (inntags) that we anticipate will find application in a variety of biological techniques.

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