1.NanoScience Center, Department of Biological and Environmental Science,University of Jyv?skyl?,Finland;2.Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy,?bo Akademi University,Turku,Finland
Abstract:
Background
The chicken avidin gene family consists of avidin and several avidin related genes (AVRs). Of these gene products, avidin is the best characterized and is known for its extremely high affinity for D-biotin, a property that is utilized in numerous modern life science applications. Recently, the AVR genes have been expressed as recombinant proteins, which have shown different biotin-binding properties as compared to avidin.