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Voskuil JL, Bandrowski A, Begley CG, Bradbury AR, Chalmers AD, Gomes AV, Hardcastle T, Lund-Johansen F, Plückthun A, Roncador G, Solache A, Taussig MJ, Trimmer JS, Williams C, Goodman SL. The Antibody Society's antibody validation webinar series. MAbs 2020; 12:1794421. [PMID: 32748696 PMCID: PMC7531563 DOI: 10.1080/19420862.2020.1794421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2020] [Revised: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 07/07/2020] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
Abstract
In the wake of the reproducibility crisis and numerous discussions on how commercially available antibodies as research tool contribute to it, The Antibody Society developed a series of 10 webinars to address the issues involved. The webinars were delivered by speakers with both academic and commercial backgrounds. This report highlights the problems, and offers solutions to help the scientific community appropriately identify the right antibodies and to validate them for their research and development projects. Despite the various solutions proposed here, they must be applied on a case-by-case basis. Each antibody must be verified based on the content of the product sheet, and subsequently through experimentation to confirm integrity, specificity and selectivity. Verification needs to focus on the precise application and tissue/cell type for which the antibody will be used, and all verification data must be reported openly. The various approaches discussed here all have caveats, so a combination of solutions must be considered.
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Affiliation(s)
| | - Anita Bandrowski
- Center for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
| | | | | | - Andrew D. Chalmers
- Department of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Bath, Bath, UK
- CiteAb, Bath, UK
| | - Aldrin V. Gomes
- Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
| | | | | | - Andreas Plückthun
- Department. of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
| | - Giovanna Roncador
- Monoclonal Antibody Unit, Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Madrid, Spain
| | - Alejandra Solache
- Abcam Plc, Discovery Drive, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, USA
| | - Cecilia Williams
- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Protein Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Solna, Sweden
- Department of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden
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