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Published on: January 16, 2019
Fluorescence gel retardation assay to detect protein-protein interactions
Sang-Hyun Park1, Ronald T Raines
1Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Abstract:
A gel mobility retardation assay can be used to detect a protein-protein interaction. The assay is based on the electrophoretic mobility of a protein-protein complex being less than that of either protein alone. Electrophoretic mobility is detected by the fluorescence of a green fluorescent protein variant that is fused to one of the protein partners. The assay is demonstrated by using the interaction of the S-protein and S-peptide fragments of ribonuclease A as a case study.

