H3K9me2 Polyclonal Antibody

A Dot Blot analysis was performed to test the cross-reactivity of the Bioss antibody against H3K9me2 (Cat. No. bs-53118R) with peptides containing other modifications of histone H3 and the unmodified H3K9 sequence. One hundred to 0.2 pmol of the peptide containing the respective histone modification were spotted on a membrane. The antibody was used at a dilution of 1:20,000. Figure shows a high specificity of the antibody for the modification of interest.

Mouse NIH3T3 cells were stained with the Bioss antibody against H3K9me2 (Cat. No. bs-53118R) and with DAPI. Cells were fixed with 4% formaldehyde for 10\u2019 and blocked with PBS\/TX-100 containing 5% normal goat serum and 1% BSA. The cells were immunofluorescently labeled with the H3K9me2 antibody (left) diluted 1:500 in blocking solution followed by an anti-rabbit antibody conjugated to Alexa488. The middle panel shows staining of the nuclei with DAPI. A merge of the two stainings is shown on the right.

To determine the titer of the antibody, an ELISA was performed using a serial dilution of the Bioss antibody against H3K9me2 (Cat. No. bs-53118R), crude serum and Flow through. The antigen used was a peptide containing the histone modification of interest. By plotting the absorbance against the antibody dilution, the titer of the antibody was estimated to be 1:103,000.

ChIP assays were performed using HeLa cells, the Bioss antibody against H3K9me2 (bs-53118R) and optimized PCR primer sets for qPCR. ChIP was performed with an Auto Histone ChIP-seq kit, using sheared chromatin from 1 million cells. A titration of the antibody consisting of 1, 2, 5, and 10 \u03bcg per ChIP experiment was analyzed. IgG (2 \u03bcg\/IP) was used as negative IP control. QPCR was performed with primers specific for the promoter of the inactive HBB gene and the coding region of the inactive MYOD gene, used as positive controls, and for the promoters of the active genes c-fos and GAPDH, used as negative controls. The figure shows the recovery expressed as a % of input (the relative amount of immunoprecipitated DNA compared to input DNA after qPCR analysis).