Great Antibody For Loading Control

Department of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Illinois, Chicago
PostDoctoral Research Fellow

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Company:

Abcam

Product Name:

Anti-beta Actin antibody

Catalog Number:

ab8227

Beta-actin is often used as a loading control for Western Blotting. It is a cytoskeleton protein, present in all eukaryotic cells. We used this particular antibody to probe internal Beta actin in Hela cells.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Applications

Western Blot

Sample

HeLa cell lysates

Primary Incubation

1:500 dilution prepared in blocking solution, incubated overnight at 4 degrees

Blocking Agent

5% skimmed non-fat milk in PBST20

Secondary Incubation

1:1000 anti-rabbit HRP antibody, incubated for an hour at RT

Tertiary Incubation

N/A

Detection

ECL based detection was used

Results Summary

We observed reduced phosphorylation upon treatment in Hela cells. There were few non-specific bands but prominent band was of phospho Akt

DOI or PMID #

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Additional Notes

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Summary

The Good

Good antibody

The Bad

None

The Bottom Line

Overall, it is a good antibody to detect phosphorylation of Akt.

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