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Epitope Tag Alexa Fluor® 488 Conjugated Antibody Sampler Kit #12427

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    The Epitope Tag Alexa Fluor® 488 Conjugated Antibody Sampler Kit provides an economical means to monitor the presence of proteins labeled with HA, GST, Myc, or DYKDDDDK (FLAG) tags without the need for a fluorescent secondary antibody.

    Background

    Epitope tags are useful for the labeling and detection of proteins using flow cytometry and immunostaining techniques. Because of their small size, they are unlikely to affect the tagged protein's biochemical properties. HA tag is derived from an epitope of the influenza hemagglutinin protein, which has been extensively used as a general epitope tag in expression vectors (1). Glutathione S-transferase (GST) is a widely used fusion partner, since it provides both an easily detectable tag and a simple purification process with little effect on the biological function of the protein of interest. Numerous vectors containing GST-Tag have been developed for both prokaryotic and eukaryotic systems over the past decade (2-4). Myc epitope tag is widely used to detect expression of recombinant proteins in bacteria, yeast, insect, and mammalian cell systems (5). DYKDDDDK peptide has been used extensively as a general epitope tag in expression vectors. This peptide can be expressed and detected with the protein of interest as an amino-terminal or carboxy-terminal fusion (6).

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