biotinylate
English
Etymology
biotinyl + -ate
Verb
biotinylate (third-person singular simple present biotinylates, present participle biotinylating, simple past and past participle biotinylated)
- To attach a biotin residue to a biological macromolecule in order to label it
- 2015 July 11, Eugene J. H. Wee, Thu Ha Ngo, Matt Trau, “Colorimetric detection of both total genomic and loci-specific DNA methylation from limited DNA inputs”, in Clinical Epigenetics, volume 7, DOI: :
- After 30 min, the reaction was supplemented to a final volume of 25 μL with 5 units of Klenow fragment (3′→5′ exo-) DNA polymerase (NEB, USA) and 5 μM of biotin-14-dUTP, dATP, dGTP and dCTP and incubated at 37 °C for another 30 min to fill in the overhangs and biotinylate the fragmented DNA.
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Related terms
- biotinylation