Co-Immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) is a classic method for studying protein interactions based on the specific interaction between antibodies and antigens. A powerful method for determining the physiological interaction of two proteins in intact cells. When cells are lysed under non-denaturing conditions, many protein-protein interactions present in cells are preserved.
Co-IP is a method commonly used to determine whether two target proteins bind in vivo, and can also be used to screen for binding proteins of a specific protein.