General Notes
Mouse anti Bovine IFN? antibody, clone CC302 recognizes bovine interferon-gamma, a 143 amino acid cytokine with potent activating, antiviral and anti proliferative properties, produced as a pro-peptide with an additional 23 amino acid N-terminal signal peptide sequence having a molecular weight of ~20 kDa. IFN? is predominantly secreted by activated T lymphocytes in response to specific mitogens as a result of infection (Rhodes et al. 2000).Mouse anti bovine ? interferon antibody, clone CC302 has been demonstrated to be reactive to a number of mammalian species including human, sheep, dog, pig, goat and mink (Pedersen et al. 2002). Mouse anti Bovine IFN? antibody, clone CC302 has been used successfully for the evaluation of ? interferon levels in the sera of calves naturally infected with M. avium. subsp paratuberculosis (Appana et al. 2013) as a detection reagent using an ELISA.