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Hi! So, we had a customer call today who is using ab 2231 in both human and rat aortic homogenate. He has loaded from 100 ugs to 1 mg of protein per lane diluted the antibody 5 ugs/ml and incubated overnight. He sees a band at 32kDa but nothing at 40 kDa. It says on the datasheet that the predicted MW is 33 kDa but runs at 40 kDa do you have the peptide available for them to run a blocking study? The other issue is that they see this band in their negative control lane (with BSA). Otherwise, this looks to be an issue with the antibody. |
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According to the datasheet, this antibody is thought to run at 40kDa due glycosylation. It could be that the protein is running at 32kDa in their experiments as the protein in their system is not glycosylated. However, I am concerned that their negative control is also showing a band at the same size. We do not have the peptide here for them to try but I will ask the originator of the antibody if they have the blocking peptide available. It would help if the researcher could contact us directly and provide a blot image. Are they just loading BSA in their negative control lane? Please ask them to contact us by e-mailing technical@abcam.com and attaching a blot image to the e-mail. |
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Please note: All products are "FOR RESEARCH USE ONLY AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR DIAGNOSTIC OR THERAPEUTIC USE"
Predicted band size : 31 kDa
ab2231 (0.1 µg/ml) staining human kidney whole tissue lysate (35 µg) in RIPA buffer. Incubation with primary antibody was for 1 hour. Detection was by chemiluminescence.
ICC/IF image of ab2231 stained HeLa cells. The cells were 4% formaldehyde fixed (10 min) and then incubated in 1%BSA / 10% normal donkey 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 (ab2231, 5µg/ml) overnight at +4ºC. The secondary antibody (green) was Alexa Fluor® 488 donkey anti-goat 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.
IHC image of ab2231 staining in human normal kidney formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue section, performed on a Leica BondTM system using the standard protocol B. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab2231, 10µg/ml, for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.
For other IHC staining systems (automated and non-automated) customers should optimize variable parameters such as antigen retrieval conditions, primary antibody concentration and antibody incubation times.
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