Thermo Scientific™ Sulfo-SBED Biotin Label Transfer Reagent, No-Weigh™ Format

Thermo Scientific™ Sulfo-SBED Biotin Label Transfer Reagent, No-Weigh™ Format

The Thermo Scientific Pierce Sulfo-SBED Biotin Label Transfer Reagent is a multifunctional reagent for labeling a purified protein and then covalently transferring the attached biotin tag onto specific interactors of that protein.

Sulfo-SBED is the abbreviation for Sulfo-N-hydroxysuccinimidyl-2-(6-[biotinamido]-2-(p-azido benzamido)-hexanoamido) ethyl-1,3'-dithioproprionate. It is a heterobifunctional chemical crosslinker capable of covalently attaching to primary amines at one end and to nearly any protein functional group at the other end. Unlike typical crosslinkers, Sulfo-SBED also includes a biotin group and a cleavable disulfide spacer arm. Together these features allow one to sequentially crosslink interacting proteins and transfer the biotin affinity tag from one protein (i.e., a purified 'bait' protein) to another (possibly unknown 'prey' protein). Label Transfer is a powerful in vitro method for protein interaction discovery. A growing number of publications feature the use of Sulfo-SBED Biotin Label Transfer Reagent to identify previously unknown protein interaction binding partners and to more fully characterize the specific protein binding domains of other protein interactions.