Molecular Biology Products

Among the products we provide are monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies, products based on E2 Tag tagging technology etc.
Molecular Biology Products

Publications E2Tag


  1. Lepik D., Ilves I., Kristjuhan A., Maimets T., Ustav M. (1998). p53 Protein Is a Suppressor of Papillomavirus DNA Amplificational Replication, J. Virol, 8: 6822–6831. PubMed ID: 9658131 
  2. Kurg, R., Parik, J., Juronen, E., Sedman, T., Abroi, A., Liiv, I., Langel, Ü., M. Ustav. (1999) Effect of bovine papillomavirus E2 protein-specific monoclonal antibodies on papillomavirus DNA replication, J. Virol., 73: 4670-4677. PubMed ID: 10233926
  3. Kaldalu, N., U. Toots, V. de Lorenzo, M. Ustav. (2000) Functional domains of the TOL plasmid transcription factor XylS, J. Bacteriol., 182: 1118-1126. PubMed ID: 10648539
  4. Kaldalu, N., D. Lepik, A. Kristjuhan, M. Ustav. (2000) Monitoring and purification of proteins using bovine papillomavirus E2 epitope tags, BioTechniques, 28: 456-462. PubMed ID: 10723557
  5. Koljak, R., Järving,I., Kurg, R., Boeglin, W.E., Varvas, K., Valmsen, K., Ustav, M., Brash, A.B., N. Samel. (2001) The basis of prostaglandin synthesis in coral, J. Biol. Chem., 276: 7033-7040. PubMed ID: 11085996
  6. Örd, D., T. Örd. (2003). Mouse NIPK interacts with ATF4 and affects its transcriptional activity. Exp. Cell Res., 286: 308-320. PubMed ID: 12749859
  7. Nigul, L., A.Olspert, M. Meier, H. Paves, T. Talpsep, E. Truve. (2004). New Plant vectors for Protein Tagging With E2 Epitope, Plant Molecular Biology Reporter, 4: 399 – 407. SpringerLink Abstract
  8. Auvinen, E., Alonso, A., P. Auvinen. (2004) Human papillomavirus type 16 E5 protein colocalizes with the antiapoptotic Bcl-2 protein, Arch Virol. 149: 1745-59. PubMed ID: 15593417 
  9. Niittymaki, J., P. Mattila, C. Roos, L. Huopaniemi, S. Sjoblom, R. Renkonen. (2004) Cloning and expression of murine enzymes involved in the salvage pathway of GDP-L-fucose. Eur.J.Biochem., 271(1): 78-86. PubMed ID: 14686921
  10. Örd, D., T. Örd. (2005) Characterization of human NIPK (TRB3, SKIP3) gene activation in stressful conditions. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 330 210-218. PubMed ID: 15781252
  11. Liewen, H., Meinhold-Heerlein, I., Oliveira, V., Schwarzenbacher, R., Luo, G., Wadle,A., Jung, M., Pfreundschuh, M., F. Stenner-Liewen. (2005) Characterization of the human GARP (Golgi associated retrograde protein) complex. Exp Cell Res. 306:24-34. PubMed ID: 15878329 
  12. Mannan, A. U., Boehm, J., Sauter, S. M., Rauber, A., Byrne, P. C., Neesen, J., W. Engel. (2006) Spastin, the most commonly mutated protein in hereditary spastic paraplegia interacts with reticulon 1 an endoplasmic reticulum protein. Neurogenetics 7: 93-103. PubMed ID: 16602018
  13. Mannan, A.U., Krawen, P., Sauter, S.M., Boehm, J., Chronowska, A., Paulus, W., Neesen, J., W. Engel. (2006) ZFYVE27 (SPG33), a novel spastin-binding protein, is mutated in hereditary spastic paraplegia. Am J Hum Genet. 79(2):351-7. PubMed ID: 16826525
  14. Ilves I., Mäemets K., Silla T., Janikson K. and Ustav M. (2006) Brd4 Is Involved in Multiple Processes of the Bovine Papillomavirus Type 1 Life Cycle, J Virol. 80(7): 3660–3665. PubMed ID: 16537635 
  15. Kurg R., Tekkel H., Abroi A., and Ustav M. (2006) Characterization of the functional activities of the bovine papillomavirus type 1 E2 protein single-chain heterodimers, J Virol. 80(22): 11218-25. PubMed ID: 16943289 
  16. Kiiver K., Merits A., Ustav M., and Zusinaite E. (2006) Complex formation between hepatitis C virus NS2 and NS3 proteins, Virus Research: 117 (2): 264-272. PubMed ID: 16324764 
    Used antibodies: 3F12 (A1-101-100), 1E2 (A1-150-100)
  17. Vendelin J., Bruce S., Holopainen P., Pulkkinen V., Rytila P., Pirskanen A., Rehn M., Laitinen T., Laitinen L., Haahtela T., Saarialho-Kere U., Laitinen Am Kere J. (2006) Downstream target genes of the neuropeptide S–NPSR1 pathway, Hum. Mol. Genet. 19: 2923–2935. PubMed ID: 16926187
  18. Wu, K., Liu, M., Li, A., Donninger, H., Rao, M., Jiao, X., Lisanti, M.P., Cvekl, A., Birrer, M., Pestell, R.G. (2007) Cell fate determination factor DACH1 inhibits c-Jun-induced contact-independent growth. Mol Biol Cell. 18(3):755-67. PubMed ID: 17182846
  19. Jõers P., Gerhold J.M., Sedman T,. Kuusk S., Sedman J. (2007) The helicase CaHmi1p is required for wild-type mitochondrial DNA organization in Candida albicans, FEMS Yeast Res, 7(1): 118-130. PubMed ID: 17311590
  20. Värv S., Kristjuhan K., Kristjuhan A. (2007) RNA polymerase II determines the area of nucleosome loss in transcribed gene loci, Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 358(2): 666-671. PubMed ID: 17498649
  21. Tamm, T., (2009) Plasmids with E2 epitope tags: tagging modules for N- and C-terminal PCR-based gene targeting in both budding and fission yeast, and inducible expression vectors for fission yeast. Yeast 2009 Jan;26(1):55-66. PubMed ID: 19180640