Semantic resources project/Antibodies/Review of Alzforum desperately seeking antibodies

this message looks for "CTF"s which seems to mean c terminal fragments of APP. So this is a query for an antibody against a specific region of the protein. a query about n-terminal specific. Query against the database for CTF yields a dozen hits, but query with "C terminal" yields many more.

this message looks for dog serotonin antibody appropriate for use with the ELISA assay. another ELISA related query. this one asked about staining for histology.

this message is looking for a specific antibodies called Alz-50 or MC-1 which recognize a specific conformation of tau protein. A keyword search against the Alzforum database do not find these antibodies.

message asked about how specific a the antibody 4G8 (search for this in Alzforum is successful) is to insoluble amyloid fibrils (answer: not very)

this message asked about whether a company selling peptides is still around.

this message asks for antibodies to amyloid plaques in mice. A query against the database "amyloid plaques" yields some hits.

this message asks about the binding site of the DA9 antibody on tau protein, i.e. the epitope. No hits for da9 in the database, but some on google (need to conjugate with tau as da9 names other antibodies)

There are a whole mess of postings in here. Reading quickly through about 1/3 there are posts that mention
 * suitability for a specific method - histology, blocking, immunodepletion, western blot, quantitation versus detection
 * location specificity.
 * just a protein name
 * a specific isoform
 * characterization (cross-reactivity)