Hi, I'm starting to do IPs with a rabbit polyclonal antisera. I plan to
use a non-immune rabbit antisera as a control, and in searching the
literature, have noticed something strange... I've seen people that have
used non-immune serum, and have a lane that is completely blank after
detection with an anti-rabbit antibody... my question is: shouldn't the
heavy/light chains of the non-immune serum be detected on a western blot
when using an anti-rabbit secondary?? Doesn't seeing absolutely nothing in
the non-immune serum lane indicate that the rabbit antibodies didn't bind
to the protein A in the first place??
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Neal Melvin
University of Calgary - Faculty of Medicine
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