Staining lab essentials
Keep your western blot workflow moving forward.

Loading control and tag antibodies against targets such as GAPDH, actin, GFP, and tubulin are essential for ensuring the accuracy and reproducibility of your experimental results. Their role is particularly important when experiments are being published in high-impact journals, where robust data is essential.
Abcam offers an extensive range of loading control and tag antibodies, offering high performance, consistency, and extensive validation across a variety of applications. A high dilution factor minimizes the need for optimization, enabling you to perform more experiments per vial of antibody. Coupled with new lower prices, this offers exceptional value and keeps your research moving forward, faster.
With our everyday essential reagents for western blot staining, you can find everything you need to keep your workflows moving forward. All our antibodies undergo extensive validation and stringent QC methods, so you can be confident in reliable reagents and premium quality.
Tags
Discover our extensive range of loading control and tag antibodies, targeting proteins such as GAPDH, actin, GFP, and tubulin, as well as widely used fusion tags including Myc, GST, His, Strep-tag, and DDDK (Flag®). Whether you're working with endogenous proteins or tagged constructs, our high-performance antibodies offer consistency and extensive validation across a variety of applications. A high dilution factor minimizes the need for optimization, allowing you to perform more experiments per vial. Now available at lower prices, so you can be confident you're getting exceptional value.
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Anti-mCherry antibody
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Cited in over 470 publications (CiteAb)
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Validations in multiple applications
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Rated 5* by customers

6X His tag
- Cited in over 350 publications (CiteAb)
- Rated 5* by customers

DDDDK tag / FLAG tag
- Cited in over 100 publications (CiteAb)

Loading controls
Loading controls are essential for ensuring the accuracy and reproducibility of your experimental results. Their role is particularly important when experiments are being published in high-impact journals, where robust data is essential.
Product highlights
Anti-GAPDH antibody [EPR16891] - Loading Control
- Citated in over 3,000 publications (CiteAb)
- Recombinant manufacture ensures batch-to-batch consistency
- Broadly validated across reactive species & applications

Anti-beta Actin antibody [mAbcam 8226] - Loading Control
- Highly cited with over 4,000 publications (CiteAb)
- Validated in multiple applications and species
- Rated 5* by customer

Sample prep and quantification
Good sample preparation is the first step towards a successful western blot. We offer quality reagents to help you effectively and accurately prepare your sample for western blot, ranging from lysis buffers and fractionation kits to protein quantification kits.
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InstantBlue® Protein Stain (ISB1L)
- Rapid staining with well-defined blue bands in 15 minutes or less
- Single-step procedure eliminating the need to wash, fix, or destain
- Efficient – Only 25 ml per gel

Whole cell extraction kit
- Simple and selective kit for extracting whole cell proteins
- Works in 45 mins
- Suitable for suspension and adherent cells

Protein controls, secondaries and other accessories
Find the other accessory reagents you need for every step of your western blot workflow, including control proteins, molecular weight markers, nitrocellulose membranes and wash buffers.
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