Antibodies 101: Secondary Antibodies
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...approach is as follows:
Prepare the sample.
Incubate the sample with the primary (unconjugated) antibody...if all the primary antibodies are the same isotype from the same species, only one secondary antibody ...remove any unbound or excess antibody.
Incubate the sample again with a conjugated secondary antibody, which...will need to be developed and optimized for the samples, antibodies, activation, and assay readout used...primary antibodies indiscriminately, giving them the same output signal. In these cases, it is best to use...not allow for absolute quantitative analysis of a sample. Instead, relative quantification can be done using...