dPEG®₂₄-biotin acid (QBD-10773)

Description

dPEG®24 biotin acid, product number QBD-10773, is a biotinylation reagent containing a single molecular weight, discrete polyethylene glycol (dPEG®) spacer that is functionalized with biotin on one end and a propionic acid moiety on the other. The dPEG® linker length is 76 atoms. The terminal propionic acid group couples to amines directly using a carbodiimide such as EDC, and it can be functionalized as an N-hydroxysuccinimidyl (NHS) or 2,3,5,6-tetrafluorophenyl (TFP) ester for reaction with amines.

Amphiphilic dPEG®24 biotin acid is soluble in water, aqueous buffers, and organic solvents. When used as a label, it does not cause aggregation or precipitation of biomolecules, even when excess label is used. Using 1-Ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl)carbodiimide (EDC) chemistry, QBD-10773 can be coupled directly to free primary amines in aqueous media. These free amines can be on a protein, peptide, or the treated surface of a nanoparticle. The linker length of dPEG®24 biotin acid is longer than the linker length of LC-biotin and longer than the linker length of LC-LC-biotin. The performance characteristics of dPEG®24-biotin acid are quite superior to both LC-biotin and LC-LC-biotin.

Many applications use this product to take advantage of the strong avidin-biotin binding interaction. Such applications include single-cell imaging of protein secretion, developing biosensors, isolating specific cell types by separation with magnetic beads, characterizing and understanding the streptavidin-biotin interaction, creating affinity-based probes, and assembling supramolecular nanostructures.

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Greg T. Hermanson, Bioconjugate Techniques, 3rd Edition, Elsevier, Waltham, MA 02451, 2013, ISBN 978-0-12-382239-0; See Chapter 18, Discrete PEG Reagents, pp. 787-821, for a full overview of the dPEG® products.

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