A team of researchers from the University at Buffalo in Amherst, NY have successfully engineered a novel variant of streptavidin that forms a stable monomer and is capable of monovalent biotin ...

Recent research by Rafael C. Bernardi at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign examines why a common tool in biotechnology -- the binding of streptavidin to biotin -- shows different mechanical ...

Receptor–ligand interactions are essential for biological function and their binding strength is commonly explained in terms of static lock-and-key models based on molecular complementarity. However, ...

Biotin can amplify signals by forming complexes of large size with avidin or streptavidin. There are several techniques that use biotinylated secondary antibodies for this purpose, which are dealt ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An excess of biotin can result in false-negative allergen-specific IgE results during the one-step ...

A new, fully automated affinity purification solution is designed to enable scientists to analyze large biomolecules, such as proteins and antibodies, with improved accuracy, consistency and ...

The term biotinylation refers to the process of binding biotin to either a protein or a nucleic acid, or in some cases to another type of molecule. An antibody is one of these potential targets, a ...