Goat anti-Syrian Hamster IgG (H+L) Highly Cross-Adsorbed Secondary Antibody, Alexa Fluor™ 555, Invitrogen™

Description

This antibody specifically detects Syrian hamster IgG and shows negligible reactivity to Armenian hamster IgG as tested by ELISA and immunofluorescence. This goat anti-syrian hamster IgG (H+L) whole secondary antibody has been affinity-purified and shows minimum cross-reactivity to bovine, horse, human, mouse, rabbit, rat serum proteins. This antibody specifically detects Syrian hamster IgG and shows negligible reactivity to Armenian hamster IgG. Cross-adsorption or pre-adsorption is a purification step to increase specificity of the antibody resulting in higher sensitivity and less background staining. The secondary antibody solution is passed through a column matrix containing immobilized serum proteins from potentially cross-reactive species. Only the nonspecific-binding secondary antibodies are captured in the column, and the highly specific secondary antibodies flow through. The benefits of this extra step are apparent in multiplexing/multicolor-staining experiments (e.g. flow cytometry) where there is potential cross-reactivity with other primary antibodies or in tissue/cell fluorescent staining experiments where there may be the presence of endogenous immunoglobulins.

Anti-Hamster secondary antibodies are affinity-purified antibodies with well-characterized specificity for hamster immunoglobulins and are useful in the detection, sorting or purification of its specified target. Secondary antibodies offer increased versatility enabling users to use many detection systems (e.g. HRP, AP, fluorescence). They can also provide greater sensitivity through signal amplification as multiple secondary antibodies can bind to a single primary antibody. Most commonly, secondary antibodies are generated by immunizing the host animal with a pooled population of immunoglobulins from the target species and can be further purified and modified (i.e. immunoaffinity chromatography, antibody fragmentation, label conjugation, etc.) to generate highly specific reagents.