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Generation of Monoclonal Antibodies Against Natural Products
Published on: April 6, 2019
Production of monoclonal antibodies for the detection of chemically modified DNA
1Leukaemia Research Fund Unit, Newcastle University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK.
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|November 15, 2012
Abstract:
Monoclonal antibodies that are specific for sites of base modification in DNA have a number of applications in, for example, studies of carcinogenesis, drug action, or DNA repair (1). The production of antibodies of the appropriate specificity entails practical considerations that are specific to this type of antigen.
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