biotechrabbit™ Tris-NTA Amine for high-affinity His-tag binding.

His-tags are one of the most commonly used tags for protein expression analysis. Conventional metal ion chelators, such as nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) and iminodiacetic acid (IDA), bind His-tags with low affinities in the range of 10 µM. The biotechrabbit Tris-NTA complexes three NTA groups that together bind a 6×His-tag with an affinity that is four orders of magnitude higher (1 nM) than is possible with conventional chelators (10 µM). The binding of His-tags is stoichiometric and single-molecule detection is possible. Binding is reversible: bound His-tags can be released with imidazole or ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA).

biotechrabbit™ Tris-NTA is available with a free amine group or conjugated to biotin. It can be used in a large range of applications, including protein detection and labeling, coupling proteins, lipids or cells to surfaces, protein purification and reversible protein modification.

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Quality Control

Identity

Identity of the substance was determined by MS analysis. The identity was consistent with the reference substance.

Purity

The purity of Tris-NTA Amine was determined by HPLC. Purity was >95%.

Tris-NTA is not pre-loaded with a metal ion.

Please, choose the metal ion (i.e. Nickel or Cobalt) and loading method that fit best to your application.

As an example, please, refer to Figure 5 in "Reichel et al., Anal Chem., 2007, 79, 8590–600":
Ni²⁺ loading by injection of 10 mM NiCl₂ when using Tris-NTA with a biosensor surface. 

Application examples

High-Affinity Adaptors for Switchable Recognition of Histidine-Tagged Proteins.
Lata et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2005, 127, 10205–10215

Specific and Stable Fluorescence Labeling of Histidine-Tagged Proteins for Dissecting Multi-Protein Complex Formation.
Lata et. al., J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 2365–2372

Noncovalent, Site-Specific Biotinylation ofHistidine-Tagged Proteins.
Reichel et al., Anal Chem., 2007, 79, 8590–600

Identifying Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions Using Photonic Crystal Biosensors.
Heeres et al., J Am Chem Soc. 2009, 131: 18202–18203

Tris-Nitrilotriacetic Acids of Sub-nanomolar Affinity Toward Hexahistidine Tagged Molecules.
Huang et al., Bioconjug Chem., 2009, 20: 1667–1672

Four-color single-molecule fluorescence with noncovalent dye labeling to monitor dynamic multimolecular complexes.
DeRocco et al., BioTechniques 2010, 49: 807-816

Co- and distinct existence of Tris-NTA and biotin functionalities on individual and adjacent micropatterned surfaces generated by photo-destruction.
Biswas et al., Soft Matter, 2014, 10, 2341–2345

High-affinity gold nanoparticle pin to label and localize histidine tagged protein in macromolecular assemblies.
Anthony et al., Structure, 2014, 22: 628–635

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