RE: PE-Cy5 or PER-CP

Calman Prussin (CPRUSSIN@atlas.niaid.nih.gov)
Wed, 4 Dec 1996 10:52:51 -0500

Actually, both Southern Biotec and Caltag sell Goat anti-mouse IgG
Pe/Cy5. Bob Johnson at Caltag has even conjugated GaM IgG1 to PE/Cy5
and it works quite well.

Calman Prussin
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>From: Janek Brozek
>Sent: Tuesday, December 3, 1996 13:04
>To: Cytometry Mailing List
>Subject: Re: PE-Cy5 or PER-CP
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>As far as I know there is no commercial source of anti-human or anti-mouse
>immunoglobulins directly conjugated to PE-Cy5 or PerCP. There are ways to
>bypass it, though.
>1. Get the biotinylated antibody and the streptavidin conjugated PerCP from
>Becton Dickinson, or streptavidin-PE-Cy5 from, say DAKO. The best source of
>biotinylated goat anti -human/-mouse MoAbs is Jackson ImmunoResearch.
>
>2.Get those anti-immunoglobulin MoAbs conjugated to FITC or PE and the other
>ones you want to use (in a 3 color setup) conjugated to PerCP or PE-Cy5.
>This idea does not work if you need ALL of your MoAbs (FL1,2,3) directed
>against immunoglobulins, of course.
>
>Hope this helps a bit,
>
>Janek
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