
Utilizing techniques common to modern molecular biology laboratories, two-hybrid systems offer a number of advantages over other biochemical methods for detecting interactions between proteins, such as immunoprecipitation, biochemical copurification, and affinity chromatography. One significant advantage is that two-hybrid systems require neither purified proteins/antibodies nor prior knowledge of a protein's function. They offer the ultimate in flexibility: Pairs of...
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