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Easy and cheap antigen/antibody couple

Biology Asked by blu potatos on August 22, 2021

For an application I need to find a cheap antigen and cheap correspondent antibody. The antigen can be literally any molecule that is cheap and potentially easy to produce and with a correspondent antibody that is cheap and easy to produce as well. I imagine this antigen will need to be a molecule that triggers very easily an immune response to result in a easy to produce antibody.

I have never worked in immunology so I don’t know what system antigen-antibody to choose. I know pregnancy test are common so probably the antibody for Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) is easy and cheap to produce but I don’t think hCG is.

Are bigger molecules better than smaller ones as antigens? Any suggestion is helpful.

One Answer

A good choice is the IgG/anti-IgG pair for cheap, easy to demonstrate/work with system. E.g. Goat-IgG coupled with donkey anti-goat IgG. Just about any antibody supplier will have these.

These type of systems are the basic primary/secondary antibody bindings routinely used in immuno-assays, blotting etc. These may be mouse IgG coupled with a labeled anti-mouse IgG for example.

Reference
Wilson MS, Nie W. Electrochemical multianalyte immunoassays using an array-based sensor. Anal Chem. 2006;78(8):2507-2513. doi:10.1021/ac0518452

Answered by Bob Tomas on August 22, 2021

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