Ma Wenbin
Department of Biochemistry, State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, College of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Methods Mol Biol. 2011;735:151-9. doi: 10.1007/978-1-61779-092-8_15.
Telomere Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChIP) is an experimental method used to determine whether proteins are associated with telomere DNA inside the nucleus of cells or tissues. Telomere-associated proteins are covalently cross-linked to telomere DNA, and then immunoprecipitated using a specific antibody for the protein. This method has become one of the most indispensable tools for unraveling the protein complexes that associate with the telomeres.
端粒染色质免疫沉淀(ChIP)是一种实验方法,用于确定蛋白质是否与细胞或组织细胞核内的端粒DNA相关联。端粒相关蛋白与端粒DNA共价交联,然后使用针对该蛋白的特异性抗体进行免疫沉淀。该方法已成为揭示与端粒相关的蛋白质复合物的最不可或缺的工具之一。