Monoamine oxidase B Activity Assay Kit ((MAOB Assay) (ab109912)

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It is important to emphasize that as the datasheet suggests this kit has been designed and tested on cell culture extracts but not specifically on serum samples. As long as MAOB (in serum) is detectable, you could make comparison between control samples and treated samples at different time points and/or at different concentrations.

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This kit is intended for use in measuring MAOB in cell culture samples. This assay is an immunoassay, a recombinant or purified standard would not be necessarily comparable to a native sample for activity so we don't offer it. For example an MAOB recombinant protein is available from Abcam ab82944 however it is not classified for functional studies funcS therefore we are not sure if it will work. The best control is MAOB isolated from untreated cells lysate.
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The antibodies used in this kit were specially made for the kit and have never been released for sale as a standalone product. Therefore, there was no need to create a clone number for them and the information you are looking for is not available.

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The Monoamine oxidase B (MAOB) Specific Activity Assay Kit (ab109912) has been designed for cell culture extracts.

We would recommend using this kit in ‘profiling’ assay which means it is to be used when comparing the levels of protein in two samples – normal and unknown/treated.

We currently don’t have access to an acceptable AMOB protein that is sufficiently native and works in the kit. As soon as we have further information, we will update the on-line product datasheet accordingly.

For your interest there is also a MAOB activity/quantity assay ab109912 in our catalogue that may be of interest.

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1. I can confirm that this assay does not deliver the result asa quantitative amount of MAOB. This kit can be used to quantitatively measure the different between two samples.

For example. Sample 1 is untreated and samples 2 is treated. the difference in MAOB can be measured.
If you would like to create your own standard curve, I suggest to MAOB in defined amounts.

2. Unfortunately, this kit is not tested and guaranteed for serum samples. I suggest to prepare a serial dilution of samples with assay buffer. This has to be optimised and is not guaranteed.

For more information please see the protocol booklet.

I am sorry I did not have positive answer to your questions on this occasion and wish you good luck with your research.

Thank you for contacting Abcam. Based on the sequence homology between human and dog (97%), there is a high probability that kit would work in samples from dog but we cannot guarantee that it. If there is anything else I can help you with, please let me kn

Thank you for contacting us! This assay is an immunoassay, a recombinant or purified standard would not be necessarily comparable to a native sample for activity so we don't offer it. For example an MAOB recombinant protein is available from Abcam ab82944 however it is not classified for functional studies funcS therefore we are not sure if it will work. The best control is MAOB isolated from untreated cells lysate. HepG2 cells are available from ATCC http://www.atcc.org/ATCCAdvancedCatalogSearch/ProductDetails/tabid/452/Default.aspx?ATCCNum=HB-8065&Template=cellBiology MAOB is present in many human cell types we also have data, for example, with SHSY5Y cells. lastly, the data shown were in vitro (in-well), several exposure of drugs(including pargyline) in a dilution series to the isolated enzymes from normal untreated cells. The cells could be stimulated first then the enzyme isolated this may work -however we have not done this. The issue that may be faced here is that the extraction and dilution of the cell lysate into the assay buffer would change the local concentration of the pargyline thereby altering its effects on activity. I hope this information will be helpful. Should you have any other question please do not hesitate to ask.

Thank you for your reply. I forwarded your question to the lab at Mitosciences, and they are not aware of a source of the active MAOB enzyme so they have not tested the kit with a recombinant standard. They recommend generating a standard curve with normal sample, demonstrated in the protocol. The data is generally reported as activity per mg or ug of normal sample. I hope this information is helpful, but please let me know if you have any further questions.

Thank you for your phone call today. The activity and quantity curves in the ab109912 protocol were generated using HepG2 cell lysate, so it's not really a typical standard. For the curve with the triangle icon, the HepG2 cells were treated with pargyline prior to lysis. These representative curves show that the kit is compatible with this lysate in the range of 16-1000 ug/mL. I hope this information is helpful but please let me know if you have any further questions and I will be happy to help you.

Thank you for your inquiry. These antibodies were generated using the shotgun immunization approach so we do not know the exact epitope. There was no peptide sequence used to immunize so unfortunately I cannot BLAST an immunogen sequence with pig. However I can say that the activity assay for MAOB is bovine (cow) crossreactive as tested by the laboratory (not shown on datasheet). Furthermore human, cow and pig have close similarity (91% identical in primary sequence).  Therefore, this assay has a good chance of working with pig but we wouldn't be able to guarantee it since we haven't yet tested this kit in pig. I hope this information helps. Please contact us with any other questions.