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ChromoTek's Nano-Traps are optimized for the immunoprecipitation (IP) of proteins and their interacting factors. Nano-Traps comprise of a Nanobody/ V_HH conjugated to beads. For 3 Nano-Traps, e.g. GFP-Trap^®,  RFP-Trap^®, and Spot-Trap^®, we offer different types of beads:

• Agarose beads
• Magnetic Agarose beads
• Dynabeads™

Immunoprecipitation with GFP-Trap.
I: Input, FT: Flow-Through, B: Bound

Based on the properties of the different beads (see table), we recommend:

• Agarose beads for very low background and high binding capacity IP
• Magnetic Agarose beads for magnetic separation and high binding capacity IP
• Dynabeads for IP of very large proteins/complexes
  

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®.