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The commercial availability of kits for the highly efficient purification of biotinylated proteins and their excellent compatibility with LC-MS\/MS protocols are the main reasons for the choice of biotin ligases. Since they are all enzymes, however, just a very low expression in cells is required for experiments. Therefore, it can be difficult to perform the quantifications of these enzymes in various samples. Traditional methods, such as western blotting, are not always fit for the detection of the expression levels. Therefore, real-time qRT-PCR, a technology that is more sensitive, was used in this study to quantify the expression of BirA fusions. Using this method, we detected high expression levels of BirA fusions in models of interactions of pluripotency transcription factors to carry out their relative quantification. We also found the absence of the competing endogenous proteins SOX2 and OCT4, as well as no cross-reactivity between BAP\/BirA and the endogenous biotinylation system in HEK293T cells. Thus, these data indicated that the high level of biotinylation is due to the in vivo interaction of BAP-X and BirA-Y (X,Y = SOX2, OCT4) in the cell rather than their random collision, a big difference in the expression level of BirA fusions across samples or endogenous biotinylation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/life13010107","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]],"date-time":"2022-12-30T03:19:46Z","timestamp":1672370386000},"page":"107","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Detection of Recombinant Proteins SOX2 and OCT4 Interacting in HEK293T Cells Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"given":"Darkhan","family":"Kanayev","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Limited Liability Partnership \u201cNational Center for Biotechnology\u201d Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3\/5, Kurgalzhynskoye Road, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Diana","family":"Abilmazhenova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Limited Liability Partnership \u201cNational Center for Biotechnology\u201d Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3\/5, Kurgalzhynskoye Road, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ilyas","family":"Akhmetollayev","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Limited Liability Partnership \u201cNational Center for Biotechnology\u201d Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3\/5, Kurgalzhynskoye Road, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Aliya","family":"Sekenova","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Limited Liability Partnership \u201cNational Center for Biotechnology\u201d Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3\/5, Kurgalzhynskoye Road, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5029-5255","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vyacheslav","family":"Ogay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Limited Liability Partnership \u201cNational Center for Biotechnology\u201d Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3\/5, Kurgalzhynskoye Road, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7932-5689","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Arman","family":"Kulyyassov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Limited Liability Partnership \u201cNational Center for Biotechnology\u201d Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 3\/5, Kurgalzhynskoye Road, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9","DOI":"10.1002\/iub.1081","article-title":"Quantitative proteomics: A strategic ally to map protein interaction networks","volume":"65","author":"Marcilla","year":"2013","journal-title":"IUBMB Life"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"825","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tibtech.2016.02.014","article-title":"Characterizing Protein-Protein Interactions Using Mass Spectrometry: Challenges and Opportunities","volume":"34","author":"Smits","year":"2016","journal-title":"Trends Biotechnol."},{"key":"ref_3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"801","DOI":"10.1083\/jcb.201112098","article-title":"A promiscuous biotin ligase fusion protein identifies proximal and interacting proteins in mammalian cells","volume":"196","author":"Roux","year":"2012","journal-title":"J. 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