supershift

  1. Noun.  (biochemistry, proteomics) A reduction in the mobility of a protein-DNA complex relative to unbound DNA, due to the binding of an antibody to that complex.
  2. Verb.  (biochemistry, proteomics) To induce a supershift.

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