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weak purified antibody - (Apr/07/2010 )

Dear all,

I purified my protein by using agarose A, the SDS PAGE showed the bands related to my antibody ( light and heavy) and when I used t in immunostaining the staining was very faint !! can anyone give me explenation.

-bluebird-

Have you measured antibody titre in serum and purified antibodies with ELISA? That should give you better comparison.

What are you using for elution - pH or chaotrope? Perhaps you're denaturing your antibodies a bit and that's why you loose activity?

-K.B.-

also, was the antibody made against native or denatured protein?

-mdfenko-

K.B. on Apr 7 2010, 06:56 AM said:

Have you measured antibody titre in serum and purified antibodies with ELISA? That should give you better comparison.

What are you using for elution - pH or chaotrope? Perhaps you're denaturing your antibodies a bit and that's why you loose activity?



yes I recived the titer of the antibody t was positive but not high positive, the protocl that I follow is the same described by Sigma for protein A agarose. the elute pH was 3.
I tested my antibody in cell line expressing protein specific for this antibody. :P

-bluebird-

bluebird on Apr 7 2010, 01:06 PM said:

yes I recived the titer of the antibody t was positive but not high positive, the protocl that I follow is the same described by Sigma for protein A agarose. the elute pH was 3.
I tested my antibody in cell line expressing protein specific for this antibody. :lol:

did you neutralize after elution at pH 3? you don't want to let it sit at low pH for long.

-mdfenko-