Anti-Fibrillarin antibody - Nucleolar Marker (ab5821)

ab5821 stained in Hela cells. Cells were fixed with 100% methanol (5 min) at room temperature and incubated with PBS containing 10% goat serum, 0.3 M glycine, 1% BSA and 0.1% triton for 1h at room temperature to permeabilise the cells and block non-specific protein-protein interactions. The cells were then incubated with the antibody ab5821 at 0.1 µg/ml and ab7291 (Mouse monoclonal [DM1A] to alpha Tubulin - Loading Control) at 1/1000 dilution overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibodies were ab150120 (pseudo-colored red) and ab150081 (colored green) used at 1 µg/ml for 1 hour at room temperature. DAPI was used to stain the cell nuclei (colored blue) at a concentration of 1.43 µM for 1hour at room temperature.

The cells were 100% methanol fixed (5 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 (ab37266, 1µg/ml, red) and (ab5821, 1µg/ml, blue) overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibodies were ab150115 Alexa Fluor® 647 goat anti-mouse IgG (H+L) used at 2µg/ml for 1h and ab175652 Alexa Fluor® 405 goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) used at 2µg/ml for 1h. 

Immunofluorescent imaging of human cells (U2OS) with ab5821 reveals highly specific localisation to the dense fibrillar component (DFC) of the nucleolus associated with the initial ribosomal RNA (rRNA) precursor. The nucleolar protein fibrillarin is located primarily in the DFC.  Blue is hoechst staining of the nucleus, green is ab5821 used at 1/100, merge image demonstrates exclusively nuclear localisation.  

IF was performed with a standard paraformaldehyde technique (fixed in PBS buffered PFH 4% for 5 minutes, permeabilised with 0.5% triton-PBS for 5 minutes, blocked with 5% milk / 0.2% tween for one hour.  Primary antibody used at 1/100 in 5% milk / 0.2% TWEEN for one hour, secondary antibody Alexa 488 for 30 minutes.  All blocking and incubation steps carried out at 37 degrees C.

ab5821 staining human liver tissue sections by IHC-P.  Sections were formaldehyde fixed, permeabilized in Triton-X and subjected to heat mediated antigen retrieval prior to blocking with 6% BSA for 2 hours at 23°C. The primary antibody was diluted 1/100 and incubated with the sample for 16 hours at 5°C.  ab6717 was used as the secondary antibody.

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