Live and Let Dye: Self-Labeling Protein Tags
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Blog Post
...Characterization of the Self-Labeling Protein Tags HaloTag7, SNAP-tag, and CLIP-tag. Biochemistry, 60(33), 2560–2575...application, SNAP-tag, CLIP-tag (both 182 aa), and eDHFR (159 aa) are smaller than HaloTag (295 aa) – for... the most popular self-labeling tag in Addgene’s collection.
CLIP-tag: Also in 2008, Kai Johnsson’s lab...lab reported another AGT-based tag named CLIP-tag, which reacts with O2-benzylcytosine(BC) ligands (Gautier...Although based on the same original enzyme, SNAP-tag and CLIP-tag show good specificity for their own ligands...genetic tag on the protein of interest.
Table 1: Summary of popular self-labeling tag systems
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Size...aren’t as many commercial options for CLIP-tag and very few TMP-tag or tetracysteine labeling dyes.
If ...