ChiP-Grade Protein G Agarose Beads are an affinity matrix for the small-scale isolation of immunocomplexes from chromatin immunoprecipitations (ChIP assays). A truncated form of recombinant Protein G is covalently coupled to agarose beads. Protein G exhibits high affinity for subclasses of IgG from many species (including human, rabbit, mouse, rat and sheep) and can be used for immunoprecipitation assays with these antibodies. The beads are stored in buffer containing BSA (500 µg/ml) and sonicated salmon sperm DNA (200 µg/ml) to block non-specific binding of proteins and DNA during isolation of immunocomplexes. These beads are not compatible with ChIP-seq because the sonicated salmon sperm DNA interferes with downstream sequencing.
