General Notes
Mouse anti Human fibrinogen antibody, clone AB05-1F11 recognizes fibrinogen, a 340 kDa glycoprotein secreted by the liver which circulates in plasma as a soluble homodimer. The identical monomer subunits are linked by 17 disulfide bond and each subunit is composed of 3 polypeptide chains referred to as alpha, beta and gamma (Tiscia & Margaglione 2018). In response to bleeding, the coagulation cascade is activated which results in the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin. The resulting fibrin spontaneously forms polymers creating an insoluble gel which combines with platelets to form a spongy mass. This mass is the blood clot which subsequently hardens to prevent further bleeding from the blood vessel (Tiscia & Margaglione 2018). The impairment of this conversion from fibrinogen to fibrin is associated with a range of pathologies including coagulopathies, ischemic stroke and obstetrical complications. It is also implicated in various neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis and traumatic central nervous system injury (Petersen et al. 2018).The purified Mouse anti Human fibrinogen antibody, clone AB05-1F11 (MCA6190GA) can be used as a capture antibody in a sandwich ELISA with the biotinylated Mouse anti Human fibrinogen antibody, clone AB10-3C12 (MCA6191B) as the detection antibody.