What are the applications of immunoprecipitation?

Immunoprecipitation is a precipitation technique that’s used to purify and enrich a protein of interest. This serves several purposes. It helps researchers to:

• Identify the presence and activation status of proteins
• Measure the size or molecular weight of a specific protein
• Study protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions
• Monitor post-translational protein modifications
• Determine specific enzymatic activity