Anti-Oct4 antibody - ChIP Grade (ab19857)

The image shows a colony of differentiating Human Embryonic Stem Cells double-stained with anti-Oct4 antibody ab19857 (green) and Sox17 antibody (red). The nuclei of Oct-4-positive undifferentiated hESCs stained bright green. Staining was restricted to the nuclei. Oct4-positive nuclei were Sox17-negative, and vice versa. This antibody can be used as a marker of Oct4-positive undifferentiated Human Embryonic Stem Cells.

Overlay histogram of Oct4 staining in mouse embryonic stem cells using ab19857 at 1:100 dilution. Purple histogram represents negative control (rabbit IgG); green line represents anti-Oct4 antibody (ab19857).

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Oct4 was immunoprecipitated using 0.5mg E14Tg2a whole cell extract, 5µg of Rabbit polyclonal to Oct4 and 50µl of protein G magnetic beads (+). No antibody was added to the control (-).
The antibody was incubated under agitation with Protein G beads for 10min, E14Tg2a whole cell extract lysate diluted in RIPA buffer was added to each sample and incubated for a further 10min under agitation.
Proteins were eluted by addition of 40µl SDS loading buffer and incubated for 10min at 70^oC; 10µl of each sample was separated on a SDS PAGE gel, transferred to a nitrocellulose membrane, blocked with 5% BSA and probed with ab19857.
Secondary: Mouse monoclonal [SB62a] Secondary Antibody to Rabbit IgG light chain (HRP) (ab99697).
Band: 48kDa: Oct4.

ab19857 staining Oct4 in F9 cells treated with trans-retinoic acid (ab120728The cells were incubated at 37°C for 2 days in media containing different concentrations of ab120728ab96899) at 1:250 dilution was used as the secondary antibody. Nuclei were counterstained with DAPI and are shown in blue.

ICC/IF image of ab19857 stained Mouse Embryonic Stem cells. The cells were PFA fixed (4% PFA, 20 min) and incubated with the antibody (ab19857, 1µg/ml) for 1h at room temperature. The secondary antibody (green) was Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) used at a 1/1000 dilution for 1h. Image-iT^TM FX Signal Enhancer was used as the primary blocking agent, 5% BSA (in TBS-T) was used for all other blocking steps. DAPI was used to stain the cell nuclei (blue).

The large nuclei of the Feeder cells can be seen in the image; ab19857 does not localise to these nuclei. ab19857 can be seen localising to the much smaller nuclei of the Mouse Embryonic Stem cells.

ICC/IF image of ab19857 stained mouse embryonic stem cells. The cells were 4% formalin 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 (ab19857, 1µg/ml) overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibody (green) was Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-rabbit IgG (H+L) used at a 1:00 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).