Sheep IgG's with Email

[Chris Hughes]

In article <-2406961545060001 at mcconvillec.can.bham.ac.uk>, @bham.ac.uk
(room 103) wrote:

> Hi folks,
> I'm having big problems using antibodies raised in sheep....
> when I develop Western blots of whole human cell extracts
> using the ECL system the background is so high even at dilutions of 5000
> that any specific signal is lost.However this is not a problem when
> testing the antibodies on Westerns against the fusion protein....
> 


Sounds like you need to pre-absorb your ab against human cell lysates
(non-transfected) to get rid of cross-reacting abs.  In theory the only
abs you should get back capable of binding to anything would be those
specific to the His tag.  I should say that I've never actually tried
this!  Maybe worth a try though -- better than the drain.

Cheers,

Chris Hughes

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Dr. Chris C.W. Hughes                   
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Biol. Sci. II
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