[Histonet] antibodies against phosphorylated proteins

[Heike Grabsch]

Jo, 
What do you use as positive control tissue, please?
Heike 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joanne Mauger [mailto:mauger <@t> email.chop.edu]
> Sent: 01 June 2006 13:22
> To: Heike Grabsch; histonet <@t> lists.utsouthwestern.edu
> Subject: Re: [Histonet] antibodies against phosphorylated proteins
> 
> Heike,
> 
> We use H2A.X on human FFPE tissue. The dilution is 1:50 and HIER with
> citrate buffer, pH 6. We use ABC detection. Works well.
> 
> Jo Mauger
> 
> >>> "Heike Grabsch" <H.I.Grabsch <@t> leeds.ac.uk> 05/31/06 10:32 AM >>>
> I am working with formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue and trying
> to
> detect phosphorylated proteins by immunohistochemistry. The antibodies
> are meant to be specific for the phosphorylated protein only.
> The one antibody I am trying to work up in particular is the
> phospho-H2AX from Upstate.
> Is there anybody out there who has an idea whether and if then how
> fixation may effect phosphorylation sides? Can they be lost or
> destroyed
> due to fixation? So the staining could be false negative?
> I hope somebody can comment on this
> 
> Thanks,
> Heike
> 
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