Recombinant Anti-Bak antibody [Y164] (ab32371)

Lanes 1- 2: Merged signal (red and green). Green - ab32371 observed at 23 kDa. Red - Anti-GAPDH antibody [6C5] - Loading Control (ab8245) observed at 37 kDa.

 ab32371 was shown to react with Bak in wild-type HeLa cells in western blot. Loss of signal was observed when knockout cell line ab265277 (knockout cell lysate ab257077) was used. Wild-type HeLa and BAK1 knockout HeLa cell lysates were subjected to SDS-PAGE. Membrane was blocked for 1 hour at room temperature in 0.1% TBST with 3% non-fat dried milk. ab32371 and Anti-GAPDH antibody [6C5] - Loading Control (ab8245) overnight at 4°C at a 1 in 1000 dilution and a 1 in 20000 dilution respectively. Blots were developed with Goat anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (IRDye^®800CW) preadsorbed (ab216773) and Goat anti-Mouse IgG H&L (IRDye^®680RD) preadsorbed (ab216776) secondary antibodies at 1 in 20000 dilution for 1 hour at room temperature before imaging.

Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of Human pancreatic carcinoma tissue sections labeling Bak with Purified ab32371 at 1:200 dilution (2.98 μg/ml). Heat mediated antigen retrieval was performed using ab93684 (Tris/EDTA buffer, pH 9.0). Tissue was counterstained with Hematoxylin. ab97051 Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (HRP)
secondary antibody was used at 1:500 dilution. PBS instead of the primary antibody was used as the negative control.

Immunocytochemistry/ Immunofluorescence analysis of HeLa (Human cervix adenocarcinoma epithelial cell) cells labeling Bak with Purified ab32371 at 1:100 dilution. Cells were fixed in 4% Paraformaldehyde and permeabilized with 0.1% tritonX-100. Cells were counterstained with Ab195889 Anti-alpha Tubulin antibody [DM1A] - Microtubule Marker (Alexa Fluor^® 594) 1:200. ab150077 Goat anti rabbit IgG(Alexa Fluor^® 488) was used as the secondary antibody at 1:1000 dilution. DAPI nuclear counterstain. PBS instead of the primary antibody was used as the secondary antibody only control.

Lanes 1 - 3: Merged signal (red and green). Green - ab32371 observed at 25 kDa. Red - loading control, ab9484, observed at 37 kDa.

Unpurified ab32371 was shown to specifically recognize BAK in wild-type HAP1 cells. No band was observed when BAK knockout cells were examined. Wild-type and BAK knockout samples were subjected to SDS-PAGE. Unpurified ab32371 and ab9484 (Mouse anti GAPDH loading control) were incubated overnight at 4°C at 1/1000 dilution and 1/20,000 dilution respectively. Blots were developed with Goat anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (IRDye^® 800CW) preabsorbed ab216773 and Goat anti-Mouse IgG H&L (IRDye^® 680RD) preabsorbed ab216776 secondary antibodies at 1/20,000 dilution for 1 hour at room temperature before imaging.

ab32371 (purified) at 1:20 dilution (2μg) immunoprecipitating Bak in HeLa (Human cervix adenocarcinoma epithelial cell) whole cell lysate.

Lane 1 (input): HeLa (Human cervix adenocarcinoma epithelial cell) whole cell lysate 10μg
Lane 2 (+): ab32371 & HeLa (Human cervix adenocarcinoma epithelial cell) whole cell lysate
Lane 3 (-): Rabbit monoclonal IgG (ab172730) instead of ab32371 in HeLa (Human cervix adenocarcinoma epithelial cell) whole cell lysate

For western blotting, VeriBlot for IP Detection Reagent (HRP) (ab131366) was used for detection at 1:1000 dilution.
Blocking and diluting buffer: 5% NFDM/TBST.

Intracellular Flow Cytometry analysis of HeLa (Human cervix adenocarcinoma epithelial cell) cells labeling Bak with purified ab32371 at 1/20 dilution (10µg/ml) (red). Cells were fixed with 4% Paraformaldehyde and permeabilised with 90% methanol. A Goat anti rabbit IgG (Alexa Fluor^® 488) secondary antibody was used at 1/2000 dilution. Isotype control - Rabbit monoclonal IgG (Black). Unlabeled control - Cell without incubation with primary antibody and secondary antibody (Blue). 

Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections) analysis of Human stomach tissue sections labeling Bak with Purified ab32371 at 1:200 dilution (2.98 μg/ml). Heat mediated antigen retrieval was performed using ab93684 (Tris/EDTA buffer, pH 9.0). Tissue was counterstained with Hematoxylin. ab97051 Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (HRP)
secondary antibody was used at 1:500 dilution. PBS instead of the primary antibody was used as the negative control.

Blocking and diluting buffer: 5% NFDM/TBST

Unpurified ab32371 staining Bakin the human cell line HeLa (human cervix adenocarcinoma) by intracellular flow cytometry. Cells were fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde, permeabilized with 90% methanol and the sample was incubated with the primary antibody at a dilution of 1/20. A goat anti rabbit IgG (Alexa Fluor^® 488) at a dilution of 1/2000 was used as the secondary antibody. 

Isoytype control: Rabbit monoclonal IgG (Black) 

Unlabelled control: Cell without incubation with primary antibody and secondary antibody (Blue) 

Immunohistochemical analysis of Bak expression in paraffin embedded human stomach carcinoma, using 1/250 unpurified ab32371.

ICC/IF image of unpurified ab32371 stained HeLa cells. The cells were 4% PFA 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 (unpurified ab32371, 1µg/ml) overnight at +4°C. The secondary antibody (green) was Alexa Fluor® 488 goat anti-rabbit 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.

Bak was immunoprecipitated from HCT116 p53-/- cell line whole cell lysate with unpurified ab32371 at 1/100 dilution.

Western blot was performed from the immunoprecipitate using ab32371 at 1/2000 dilution.

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