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Streptavidin, a protein from Streptomyces avidinii, is known to bind to biotin with very high affinity (dissociation constant 10-14 M). It has a tetrameric structure in which each molecule of Streptavidin binds to four molecules of biotin. These interactions have been utilized to isolate variety of biotin labeled proteins, antibodies and other biomolecules
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