Anti-Cofilin (phospho S3) antibody (ab12866)

Western blot - Cofilin (phospho S3) antibody (ab12866)

Peptide Competition and Phosphatase Treatment
Lysates prepared from MDCK cells treated with staurosporine (1) or left untreated (2-6) were resolved by SDS-PAGE on a 10% polyacrylamide gel and transferred to PVDF. Membranes were either left untreated (1-5) or treated with lambda phosphatase (6), blocked with a 5% BSA-TBST buffer for one hour at room temperature, and incubated with the ab12866 antibody for two hours at room temperature in a 3% BSA-TBST buffer, following prior incubation with: no peptide (1, 2, 6), the non phosphopeptide corresponding to the immunogen (3), a generic phosphoserine-containing peptide (4) or, the phosphopeptide immunogen (5). After washing, membranes were incubated with goat F(ab)2 anti-rabbit IgG HRP conjugate and bands were detected using the Pierce SuperSignal method. The data show that only the peptide corresponding to cofilin [pS3] blocks the antibody signal. The data also show that phosphatase stripping eliminates the signal, verifying that the antibody is phospho-specific.

Peptide Competition and Phosphatase Treatment Lysates prepared from MDCK cells treated with staurosporine (1) or left untreated (2-6) were resolved by SDS-PAGE on a 10% polyacrylamide gel and transferred to PVDF. Membranes were either left untreated (1-5) or treated with lambda phosphatase (6), blocked with a 5% BSA-TBST buffer for one hour at room temperature, and incubated with the ab12866 antibody for two hours at room temperature in a 3% BSA-TBST buffer, following prior incubation with: no peptide (1, 2, 6), the non phosphopeptide corresponding to the immunogen (3), a generic phosphoserine-containing peptide (4) or, the phosphopeptide immunogen (5). After washing, membranes were incubated with goat F(ab)2 anti-rabbit IgG HRP conjugate and bands were detected using the Pierce SuperSignal method. The data show that only the peptide corresponding to cofilin [pS3] blocks the antibody signal. The data also show that phosphatase stripping eliminates the signal, verifying that the antibody is phospho-specific.

Immunocytochemistry/ Immunofluorescence-Cofilin (phospho S3) antibody(ab12866)

ICC/IF image of ab12866 stained MCF7 cells. The cells were 4% PFA fixed (10 min) and then incubated in 1%BSA / 10% normal goat serum / 0.3M glycine in 0.1% PBS-Tween for 1h to permeabilise the cells and block non-specific protein-protein interactions. The cells were then incubated with the antibody (ab12866, 1µg/ml) overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibody (green) was Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) used at a 1/1000 dilution for 1h. Alexa Fluor® 594 WGA was used to label plasma membranes (red) at a 1/200 dilution for 1h. DAPI was used to stain the cell nuclei (blue) at a concentration of 1.43µM.