Excellent PKM2 Antibody for Western from CST

Oncology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Lab Technician

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Company:

Cell Signaling Technology

Product Name:

PKM2

Catalog Number:

4053

Since we are interested in looking at tumor metabolism, we looked under PKM2 since this has been an area of interest. With western blot, we looked to see if there was any expression difference when tumor cells were treated with a glutamine antagonist.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Applications

Western Blot

Sample

Tumor cells

Primary Incubation

4% BSA in 1:2000 dilution in 4C

Blocking Agent

5% nonfat milk

Secondary Incubation

1:5000 rabbit antibody in 5% nonfat milk

Tertiary Incubation

None

Detection

ECL

Results Summary

The antibody works extremely well and was extremely bright. Unfortunately our western showed there was no significant differences in expression levels.

DOI or PMID #

N/A

Additional Notes

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Summary

The Good

Bright Antibody and specific

The Bad

The cost of anitbodies are always high

The Bottom Line

The antibody works well and specific. The bands showed up even when we did a lower dilution therefore it would require some titrating.

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