Epitope Tag & Loading Control Antibodies
The proteins that normally serve as internal controls in your research may not always take center
stage, but they are indispensable for conducting meaningful research, most notably for the proper interpretation of
Western blots.
Loading control proteins and protein tags provide a reference to evaluate the changes in expression
levels of target proteins and help to ensure that any increase or decrease in target protein levels is due to your
experimental manipulations, and not due to errors in the Western blot procedure. Proteintech tag and control antibodies
are $149 each (€149 in Europe), including popular controls such as GAPDH, Tubulin and Actin.
Use our table below to help select a loading control for your sample type with a different molecular weight to your protein of interest.
| Whole cell/cytoplasmic | Nuclear | Mitochondrial | Serum | ||||
| Loading control | MW (kDa) | Loading control | MW (kDa) | Loading control | MW (kDa) | Loading control | MW (kDa) |
| Vinculin | 117 | ||||||
| Transferrin | 77 | ||||||
| Lamin B1 | 66 | ||||||
| HDAC1 | 65 | ||||||
| α-tubulin | 52 | ||||||
| β-tubulin | 50 | ||||||
| β-actin | 42 | ||||||
| GAPDH | 36 | TBP (rodent) | 33-36 | ||||
| PCNA | 36 | VDAC1/Porin | 36 | ||||
| TBP (human) | 37-43 | ||||||
| COXIV | 19 | ||||||
| Histone H3 | 16 | ||||||
Proteintech offers a variety of antibodies for the identification, immunoprecipitation, and purification of proteins with genetically engineered epitope tags.
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