decahistidine

English

Etymology

From deca- +‎ histidine.

Noun

decahistidine (uncountable)

1. An oligopeptide consisting of ten histidine moieties
2. A section of ten histidine amino acids added to a protein (such a section does not exist in nature)
   • 2015 October 6, “Optimizing Production of Antigens and Fabs in the Context of Generating Recombinant Antibodies to Human Proteins”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     We also explored using a vector (pNIC-Bio2) appending a decahistidine tag because, in theory, this tag would offer higher affinity immobilization to an NTA chip in surface plasmon resonance (SPR), which could facilitate acquiring more accurate kinetic binding data for the Fabs.