bcl-2 AB

From: Visia Dragowska (vdragows@bccancer.bc.ca)
Date: Fri Apr 23 1999 - 20:47:25 EST


I am looking for a-human bcl-2 antibody for Flow Cytometry conjugated
preferably to FITC which will be able to differentiate between  cells
expressing low levels of bcl-2.  Antibodies I have checked so far give me a
very nice negative background with an isotypic control but they appear to
produce some background staining which covers low expression of bcl-2.
Cells like HL-60 expressing bcl2 low are stained with almost the same
intensity as other cells known from Western blot to give much stronger
signal.  I have checked few fixation/ permeabilization methods and have got
similar results. 
Have anybody out there got a good correlation between Western and Flow using
the same bcl-2 antibody (like DAKO  clone 124) or is there a pair of
different antibodies which are able to correlate well for both applications
(including lower values)?
Will appreciate some advice/discussion on the subject.

Visia Dragowski
BC Cancer Research Center




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