BirA ligase helps in conjugation of biotin to any biomolecule which has a "biotin tag" sequence (like Avi tag) in its C terminus.
PBS works great. You alos have to add MgCl2, D-biotin and ATP (final conc. of 5 mM, 150 uM and 2 mM respectively).
You'll find some practical advice here:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=PMC4304673
Hope it helps!
I'd generally recommend to use HEPES or Tris buffers when working with MgCl2 as Mg - phosphate salts have low solubility. You definitely get precipitation when heating / autoclaving the Mg and phosphate and this will give problems.
Best Markus
Thank you Mr. A Martin and Mr. M Sack.
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