Preface ......................................................... v
Contributors ................................................... xi
1. Preparation of Avidin Conjugates
Rosaria P. Haugland and Mahesh K. Bhalgat ................ 7
2. Coupling of Antibodies With Biotin
Rosaria P. Haugland and Wendy W. You .................... 13
3. Optimization of Detection and Quantification of Proteins
on Membranes in Very High and Very Low Abundance Using
Avidin and Streptavidin
Sara R. Zwart and Brandon J. Lewis ...................... 25
4. Use of the Avidin (Imino) Biotin System as a General
Approach to Affinity Precipitation
Ruth Freitag and Frank Hilbrig .......................... 35
5. Capturing Biotinylated Proteins and Peptides by Avidin
Functional Affinity Electrophoresis
Bao-Shiang Lee, Sangeeth Krishnanchettiar,
Syed Salman Lateef, and Shalini Gupta ................... 51
6. Functionality Screen of Streptavidin Mutantsby
Non-Denaturing SDS-PAGE Using Biotin-4-Fluorescein
Nicolas Humbert and Thomas R. Ward ...................... 63
7. Application of Biotin-4-Fluorescein in Homogeneous
Fluorescence Assays for Avidin, Streptavidin, and
Biotin or Biotin Derivatives
Andreas Ebner, Markus Marek, Karl Kaiser, Gerald
Kada, Christoph D. Hahn, Bernd Lackner, and
Hermann J. Gruber ....................................... 73
8. Quantitative Recovery of Biotinylated Proteins from
Streptavidin-Based Affinity Chromatography Resins
Christoph Rösli, Jascha-N. Rybak, Dario Neri,
and Giuliano Elia ....................................... 89
9. High-Yield Production and Purification of Recombinant
T7-Tag Mature Streptavidin in Glucose-Stressed
E. coli
Nicolas Humbert, Peter Schürmann, Andrea Zocchi,
Jean-Marc Neuhaus, and Thomas R. Ward .................. 101
10. Endogenous Biotin in Rat Brain: Implications for
False-Positive Results With Avidin-Biotin and
Strepta vidin-Biotin Techniques
Bruce E. McKay, Michael L Molineux, and Ray W. Turner ... 111
11. Pseudo-lmmunolabelling With the Avidin-Biotin-
Peroxidase Complex due to the Presence of Endogenous
Biotin in the Retina
Willem Kamphuis and Jan Klooster ....................... 129
12. Use of Synthetic Peptides for Identifying Biotinylation
Sites in Human Histones
Gabriela Camporeale, Yap Ching Chew, Alice Kueh,
Gautam Sarath, and Janos Zempleni ...................... 139
13. Detection and Quantitation of the Activity of DNA
Methyltransferases Using a Biotin/Avidin Microplate
Assay
Kirsten Liebert and Albert Jeltsch ..................... 149
14. Anti-Biotin Antibodies Offer Superior Organelle-Specific
Labelling of Mitochondria Over Avidin or Streptavidin
Elisabeth D. Coene, Michael K. Shaw, and
David J. Vaux .......................................... 157
15. Mammalian Lectin as Tool in Glycochemistry and
Histochemistry With Relevance for Diagnostic Procedure
Karel Smetana, Jr., and Sabine André ................... 171
16. A Multiplex Approach to Isotyping Antigen-Specific
Antibodies Using Biotinylated Antigen/Streptavidin-
Phycoerythrin
Krista McCutcheon ...................................... 187
17. Biotin-Protein Bond: Instability and Structural
Modification to Provide Stability for In Vivo
Applications
Donald M. Mock and Anna Bogusiewicz .................... 209
Index ......................................................... 221
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