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  • noun biochemistry A protein, having a structure containing four cavities, that has a high affinity for biotin

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  • In short, the protein extract was added to the washed steptavidin resin and rotated for 2 hours at 4°C to allow the tagged proteins to bind streptavidin via the streptavidin binding protein (SBP) tag and washed three times in wash buffer (Stratagene).

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Parveen Sharma et al. 2010

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