Long name
Mouse Monoclonal IgG2a Isotype Control
Antigen
Mouse IgG2a Isotype Control
Species reactivity
Immunoglobulin Isotype Control
Negative species reactivity
Human, Mouse, Rat
Clonality
Monoclonal Antibody (Mab)
Clone
MOPC-173
Applications
FC, IP, WB, IHC, ICC, negative control
Immunogen
The transplantable plasmacytoma MOPC-173 was induced by intraperitoneal injection of mineral oils into BALB/c mice.
Format/conjugation
Pacific Blue
Specificity
This mouse IgG2a monoclonal antibody (clone MOPC-173) reacts with an unknown epitope. It does not react with a variety of resting, activated, live, and fixed mouse, rat and human tissues.
Research area
Immunoglobulin Isotype Controls
Concentration
0.1 mg/ml
Storage buffer
The reagent is provided in stabilizing phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution containing 15mM sodium azide.
Shipping and storage
Mouse Monoclonal IgG2a Isotype Control is shipped on blue ice or ice packs. Upon receipt store at 4 degrees Celcius. Do not freeze!
Background
The specificity of staining by monoclonal antibodies to target antigens should be verified by establishing the amount of non-specific antibody binding. Especially at higher concentration (more than 15 μg/ml) the antibody staining usually has consignable background. To this end a non-reactive immunoglobulin of the same isotype is included as a negative control for each specific monoclonal antibody used in a particular immunoassay. The monoclonal antibody MOPC-173, generated against an undefined antigen, does not react specifically with mouse, rat and human samples, and hence all the background that could be observed when working with this antibody would be a result of general nonspecific interactions between an mouse IgG2a molecule and the respective sample under the particular conditions. This shall help the customer to set up the experimental conditions so that the nonspecific binding of any antibody is abolished.
Purity
> 95% (by SDS-PAGE)
Purification method
Purified by affinity chromatography
References
*Khoddami V, Cairns BR: Transcriptome-wide target profiling of RNA cytosine methyltransferases using the mechanism-based enrichment procedure Aza-IP. Nat Protoc. 2014 Feb;9(2):337-61., *Gupta V, Gylling A, Alonso JL, Sugimori T, Ianakiev P, Xiong JP, Arnaout MA: The beta-tail domain (betaTD) regulates physiologic ligand binding to integrin CD11b/CD18. Blood. 2007 Apr 15;109(8):3513-20., *Baumal R, Scharff MD: Immunoglobulin biosynthesis by the MOPC 173 mouse myeloma tumor and a variant spleen clone. J Immunol. 1976 Jan;116(1):65-74., *Fougereau M, Bourgois A, de Preval C, Rocca-Serra J, Schiff C: The complete sequence of the murine monoclonal immunoglobulin MOPC 173 (IgG2a): genetic implications. Ann Immunol (Paris). 1976 Sep-Oct;127(5):607-31., *And many other.
Description
Isotype or positive controls by peptides, antibodies and deactivated samples.
Additional isotype
IgG2a
Properties
Immunoglobulin Isotype specific antibodies and controls are specific to the immunoglobulin heavy chains and immunoglobulin light chains. Mouse monoclonal antibodies from this clone have all the same affinity to the antigen. Also polyclonal antibodies are Isotype purified amd conjugated or if they are used as control non conjugated.
Group
isotypes
Test
Mouse or mice from the Mus musculus species are used for production of mouse monoclonal antibodies or mabs and as research model for humans in your lab. Mouse are mature after 40 days for females and 55 days for males. The female mice are pregnant only 20 days and can give birth to 10 litters of 6-8 mice a year. Transgenic, knock-out, congenic and inbread strains are known for C57BL/6, A/J, BALB/c, SCID while the CD-1 is outbred as strain.
Latin name
Mus musculus