Flag-tag and 3x Flag-tag: An epitope tag for capture and detection experiments
Myc-tag: An epitope tag for protein characterization, protein interaction analysis, and purification.
Myc-tag is a peptide tag derived from the c-Myc protein. The Myc-tag can be used for many capture and detection applications such as immunoprecipitation, immunofluorescence and protein purification.
Why Spot-Tag can be used to purify any protein
Introduction
Proteins often have very different individual characteristics and requirements for manipulation. Not every purification tag in combination with the desired purification resin is suitable for every protein. Some proteins are sensitive towards wash or elution buffers, while others are difficult to purify because the selected affinity resin can be contaminated by host cell proteins. Taking these points into consideration, the selection of both the affinity tag and the affinity resin can have a strong impact on protein purity and yield, which is often dependent on the target protein. Requirements for an affinity resin comprise (i) high purity (minimal contaminations), (ii) high yield of the purified protein, and (iii) a broad buffer stability. Ideally, affinity tags should be (iv) inert and (v) short in order to not or minimally affect the purified protein.
Topics: Spot-Tag
Mass spec-compatible immunoprecipiation for GFP, mNeonGreen, Myc, RFP, Spot, and TurboGFP
New iST Nano-Trap kits for immunoprecipitation (IP) and sample preparation for mass spectrometry (MS) in just 4 easy steps:
Topics: Immunoprecipitation, Mass spec, Myc-tag, VHH, Nanobody, mNeonGreen, GFP, Spot-Tag, TurboGFP, RFP
How to overcome the limitations of antibody-based affinity resins for protein purification
Topics: affinity resin, affinity purification, Spot-Tag, Spot Nanobody, protein purification, epitope tag
Spot Capture and Detection Peptide Tag and Nanobody
The Spot-Nanobody (green) binds to the Spot-Tag sequence motif PDRVRAVSHWSS. Upon binding, the Spot-Tag peptide is embedded on the surface of the Spot-Nanobody and becomes a β-sheet extension of the Spot-VHH. Defined interactions of the Spot-Nanobody’s side chains to the Spot-peptide determine specificity. In addition, the Spot-peptide is clamped by two amino acid side chains of the Spot-Nanobody. This binding mechanism elucidates why the Spot-Nanobody binds with high affinity to the Spot-Tag.
Topics: Spot-Tag, Spot Nanobody, Spot-Label
First Peptide-tag specific Nanobody applied in super resolution microscopy (SRM)
You may have noticed the recent publication “A peptide tag-specific nanobody enables high-quality labeling for STORM imaging” of Virant et al (2018) in Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-03191-2, where for the first time a peptide-tag specific Nanobody was applied in dSTORM imaging: The authors have described and discussed the performance of a BC2 peptide-tag specific Nanobody to image BC2 peptide tag fusion proteins in super resolution microscopy, i.e. dSTORM. This Blog features that BC2 peptide-tag specific Nanobody, which ChromoTek markets under the names Spot-Label® and Spot-Trap®. In addition, this Blog figures the significantly improved version of the BC2 peptide -tag, which is called Spot-Tag®.
Topics: Nanobody, Spot-Tag, Capture/detection System, Spot Nanobody, Spot-Trap, Spot-Label, Spot super resolution microscopy, Spot STED, Spot immunofluorescence, BC2tag