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A validated antibody toolbox for ALS research.
eLife · · Journal Article · Open access
Ayoubi, MacDougall + more
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ALS-RAP generated KO-validated antibodies for 33 ALS-associated proteins, characterizing 303 antibodies to produce a publicly available toolbox and protein expression resource.
- Why it matters: Many ALS-associated proteins are poorly studied because validated research antibodies are scarce, and prior benchmarking showed widely used reagents can lack specificity.
- What they did: The team built KO-based antibody characterization workflows, then benchmarked antibodies for ALS risk genes and used the validated set for western blot, immunoprecipitation, and immunofluorescence profiling.
- The result: In human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived and primary neurological cell types, protein distributions varied and several ALS-associated proteins were at higher levels in glial populations, supporting immune-linked models of ALS.
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