Correct, the pre-incubation was to help remove antibodies that will bind to proteins other than MBP that are present in the lysate. The anti-serum in question has not been further purified to produce purified antibodies against MBP, if it is the one I found at NEB (cat number E8030S), it would say "Affinity purified" if it were.
An anti-serum is different to an antibody. Anti-sera are where the blood has been collected from the immunized animal and the red blood cells removed, but nothing else. An antibody is a small component of the anti-serum that binds specifically to a particular sequence. In all anti-sera, there are many many many antibodies against all sorts of things from food the animal is eating, bacteria, viruses, fungi, dust... you name it, it's there. A typical antibody recognition sequence is less than 15 amino-acids in length, often as few as 4 aa's, which as you can imagine, is not very specific. This is the reason that either further purification is needed, or some sort of pre-incubation to help remove antibodies that bind to proteins other than the one you are looking for.
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