The idea here is to biotinylate the transcription factor X in vivo with the help of acceptor peptide and BirA in X-/- cell. The molecular weight of protein after tagging and biotinylation is 67 kDa and molecular mass of the mutated endogenous protein is 64. But I am unable to get two proper bands when I am doing the western blot and probing against X protein.If you are thinking if X-/- is knockout then why I will get two bands then let me tell you.I went through the paper in which they have done knockout in X-/- cell. They have deleted only third exon through homologous recombination.