What's the difference between megnatic beads and agarose beads to IP His-tag - (Mar/28/2012 )

I 'm planning to pull-down the interacting proteins of my 6XHis-tagged protein with anti-His beads. But I can find a few agarose beads for His antibodies. What's the difference between magnatic and agarose beads?

Thanks!

The magnetic beads use a magnet to pull them out of suspension, which is gentler than centrifugation, they can also be centrifuged though. The agarose (sepharose) beads can only be pulled down by centrifugation.

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If I'm about to do IP to look for interacting proteins. Is magnetic bead a good choice? I see very few agarose beads for His-tag but a lot magnetic and nickel NTA something which I never worked with before.

It will work fine. NiNTA is usually used for column based preparations.