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Western blotting sprung from the need to develop a sensitive visual assay for the antigen specificity of monoclonal antibodies. The technique employed SDS-PAGE of protein antigens, electrophoretic replica transfer of gel-resolved proteins to unmodified nitrocellulose sheets, probing the immobilized antigens with hybridomas, and detection of antibody–antigen complexes with radiolabeled staphylococcal protein A and autoradiography. The simplicity and relevance of the method has led to its expansive application as an immunodiagnostic and a ubiquitous research tool in biology and medicine.
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Burnette, W.N. (2009). Western Blotting: Remembrance of Things Past. In: Kurien, B., Scofield, R. (eds) Protein Blotting and Detection. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 536. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-542-8_2
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