Protein/protein-crosslinkers

[Peter Henriksen]

Thank you for your great answers.
 
I realize that achieving the actual chemistry of crosslinking two carboxyl groups is a lot tougher than I anticipated. 
 
If I got it right, using a carbodiimide (like EDC) will be a problem for me because it prepares carboxyls to react with amines and thereby Proteins with DNA. Adding high concentrations of polyamines might out-compete DNA-amines but might also cause very little crosslinking since carboxyl groups have to bind the same polyamine-molecule to be crosslinked. 
 
The use of more target-specifik crosslinking methods (like transglutaminase under a controlled promoter) seems less attractive to me because I want the crosslinking to be fairly unspecifik and capable of crossbinding lots of different proteins. 
 
However, knowing that I have to rethink my strategy is also of great value.   :o) 
 
Cheers
 
Peter Henriksen