Investigation of DNA-protein interactions is fundamental to understand the mechanism underlying a variety of life processes. In this article, various types of biochemical methods in DNA-protein interaction study in vivo and in vitro at the level of DNA, protein, and the complex, respectively were briefly reviewed. Traditional assays including Nitrocellulose filter-binding assay, Footprinting, EMSA, and Southwestern blotting were summarized. In addition, chromatin immunopre-cipitation techniques including nChIP, xChIP, and ChIP-on-chip, which were widely used in epigenetics, were particularly introduced.
ZHANG Jin-Bi, PAN Zeng-Xiang, LIN Fei, MA Xue-Shan, LIU Hong-Lin
. Biochemical methods for the analysis of DNA-protein interactions[J]. Hereditas(Beijing), 2009
, 31(3)
: 325
-366
.
DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1005.2009.00325