Re: IgM antibodies and ugly histos

Mikael Vestberg (Mikael.Vestberg@inflam.lu.se)
Wed, 28 Feb 96 17:10:30 +0100

>From: "Steve G. Hilliard" <hilliard@cellmate.cb.uga.edu>
>To: Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 11:21:05 +0000
>Subject: IgM antibodies and ugly histos
>Cc: hilliard@cb.uga.edu

Unfortunately,=20
>all the positives are simply wider smears out to the 2nd or 3rd=20
>decade, and still overlapping the negative significantly.

Maybe that's the way they are or..

You could try centrifugating the IgM hard (eg 100 000g for 10 minutes)=20
to get rid of aggregates of antibody. In my former lab I used an airfuge=20
that reportedly would get those g numbers. Nowadays I do 40-50 000g for=20
a bit longer to lower background on home labelled antibodies.

Mikael