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biotinylate

verb

  1. to attach a biotinyl residue
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From biotinyl + -ate.

  1. To attach a biotin residue to a biological macromolecule in order to label it

    After 30 min, the reaction was supplemented to a final volume of 25 μL with 5 units of Klenow fragment (3′→5′ exo-) DNA polymerase (NEB, USA) and 5 μM of biotin-14-dUTP, dATP, dGTP and dCTP and incubated at 37 °C for another 30 min to fill in the overhangs and biotinylate the fragmented DNA.