HA Rabbit Polyclonal Antibody

Specifications

Product Data
Applications	ELISA, WB
Recommend Dilution	ELISA: 1 ug/mL,WB: 1 ug/mL
Reactivity	Influenza A Virus
Host	Rabbit
Clonality	Polyclonal
Immunogen	Avian influenza hemagglutinin antibody was raised against a synthetic peptide corresponding to 15 amino acids at the amino terminus of the avian influenza hemagglutinin protein. Efforts were made to use relatively conserved regions of the viral sequence a
Formulation	PBS containing 0.02% sodium azide.
Concentration	1 mg/ml
Purification	Purified from mouse ascites fluids or tissue culture supernatant by affinity chromatography (protein A/G)
Conjugation	Unconjugated
Storage Condition	Store at -20°C as received.
Background	Avian Influenza Hemagglutinin Antibody: Influenza A virus is a major public health threat, killing more than 30, 000 people per year in the USA. Novel influenza virus strains caused by genetic drift and viral recombination emerge periodically to which humans have little or no immunity, resulting in devastating pandemics. Influenza A can exist in a variety of animals; however it is in birds that all subtypes can be found. These subtypes are classified based on the combination of the virus coat glycoproteins hemagglutinin (HA) and neuraminidase (NA) subtypes. During 1997, an H5N1 avian influenza virus was determined to be the cause of death in 6 of 18 infected patients in Hong Kong. There was some evidence of human to human spread of this virus, but it is thought that the transmission efficiency was fairly low. HA interacts with cell surface proteins containing oligosaccharides with terminal sialyl residues. Virus isolated from a human infected with the H5N1 strain in 1997 could bind to oligosaccharides from human as well as avian sources, indicating its species-jumping ability.
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