In a protein-protein interaction assay, Co-IP is used to:
Co-immunoprecipitation is standard biochemical technique to detect protein-protein interactions under native conditions. Cellular lysates prepared in non-denaturing buffer are incubated with antibody specific to bait protein immobilized on Protein A or G agarose beads. Interacting prey proteins co-precipitate with bait, are eluted and detected by Western blotting. Successful co-precipitation indicates physiological association within complex, signalosome or regulatory scaffold. It does not detect direct DNA binding or amplify RNA. Therefore it specifically precipitates interacting proteins, di
Ref: NCERT Biology Class XII Principles on Klenow fill-in labeling, Lehninger Chapter 9 DNA cloning techniques, and Molecular Cloning by Sambrook Chapter 10 documenting end-labeling of cohesive termini.