My old lab used to make his tagged TBP and it bound TATA boxes just fine.
It will probably be a case specfic issue and you'll just have to try it. Or
put on one of those leaders with a protease site and cut off the tag to do
some controls.
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> From: Matt Hicks <matth at biols.susx.ac.uk>
> Organization: University of Sussex
> Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.proteins
> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:51:29 +0000
> Subject: His-tags and DNA-binding
>> Hi Folks,
> Has anyone come across a situation where a 6XHis tag has affected the
> DNA-binding of a DNA-binding protein? (the pH is 8 so unlikely to be +ve
> charge). I know the folding could be affected. Just wondered if anyone
> had seen such a phenomenon...
> Thanks,
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> University of Sussex
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