Anti-IRAK4 antibody [2H9] (ab119942)

False colour image of Western blot: Anti-IRAK4 antibody [2H9] staining at 1/500 dilution, shown in green; Rabbit Anti-GAPDH antibody [EPR16891] (ab181602) loading control staining at 1/20000 dilution, shown in red. In Western blot, ab119942 was shown to bind specifically to IRAK4. A band was observed at 55 kDa in wild-type THP-1 cell lysates with no signal observed at this size in IRAK4 knockout cell line ab281630 (knockout cell lysate ab282980). To generate this image, wild-type and IRAK4 knockout THP-1 cell lysates were analysed. First, samples were run on an SDS-PAGE gel then transferred onto a nitrocellulose membrane. Membranes were blocked in 3 % milk in TBS-0.1 % Tween^® 20 (TBS-T) before incubation with primary antibodies overnight at 4 °C. Blots were washed four times in TBS-T, incubated with secondary antibodies for 1 h at room temperature, washed again four times then imaged. Secondary antibodies used were Goat anti-Mouse IgG H&L (IRDye^® 800CW) preabsorbed (ab216772) and Goat anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (IRDye^® 680RD) preabsorbed (ab216777) at 1/20000 dilution.

ab119942 stained HepG2 cells. The cells were 4% formaldehyde 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 ab119942 at 1/100 dilution overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibody (green) was DyLight® 488 goat anti- mouse (ab96879) 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.