Avidin

Product Name Avidin
Source Chicken Egg White
Catalogue Number 102-90
Purity Highly Purified
Form Lyophilized
Protein > 0.90 mg protein/mg solid
Activity > 10 U/mg solid
Unit Definition One unit will bind one microgram of d-biotin.
Moisture Content Reported
Related Products 480-20 - Alkaline Phosphatase from calf intestines
277-03 - Glucose Oxidase
439-25 - Ovalbumin from chicken egg whites
Application Egg white Avidin can be used in assays for functionalized xenon as a biosensor to detect biotin-avidin binding. Egg white was used at 80 nmol.
Recertification 3 years
Storage -20°C
Molecular Weight 64,000 (tetramer of 16,000 MW subunits)
CAS Number 1405-69-2
EC Number 215-783-6
Gene AVD
Gene ID 396260
Accession No P02701