Electrophoretic mobility shift assays for the analysis of DNA-protein interactions.
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Electromobility shift assay is a simple, efficient, and rapid method for the study of specific DNA-protein interactions. It relies on the reduction in the electrophoretic mobility conferred to a DNA fragment by an interacting protein. The technique is suitable to qualitative, quantitative, and kinetic analyses. It can also be used to analyze conformational changes.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Methods in molecular biology
دوره 148 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2001