You are studying a particular protein we'll call YFP (for Your Favorite Protein). You hypothesize that YFP binds tightly to other proteins in the cell and wish to identify those proteins. Which technique discussed in lecture will most directly allow you to achieve your goal?
A) Deletion analysis
B) A co-immunoprecipitation experiment
C) A domain swapping experiment
D) Screening an expression library
B) A co-immunoprecipitation experiment is ATP hydrolysis by kinesin(s), ATP hydrolysis by dynein(s), and the energy released by microtubule depolymerization