General Notes
Rat anti Mouse Ly-6B.2 monoclonal antibody, clone 7/4 recognizes the Ly-6B.2 antigen. Ly-6B.2 is a ~25-30 kDa GPI-anchored, heavily glycosylated protein expressed on neutrophils, inflammatory monocytes and some activated macrophages (Rosas et al. 2010). High levels of expression are seen in bone marrow, spleen, lung and lymph nodes. N-glycanase treatment of thioglycollate elicited peritoneal neutrophil lysates lowers the apparent molecular weight of Ly-6B.2 to ~15 kDa (Rosas et al.2010).In common with other Ly-6 antigens Ly-6B.2 demonstrates a polymorphic expression on inbred mouse strains (Kimura et al. 1984). Rat anti mouse Ly-6B.2, clone 7/4 recognizes the Ly-6B.2 antigen in 129J; AKR; C57BL/6; C57BL/10; C58; DBA/2; NZB; NZW; SJL; MFI; Swiss (PO) Strains whilst A2G; A/Sn; ASW; BALB/c; C3H/HEH: CBA.T6T6 are negative or demonstrate very weak reactivity (Hirsch and Gordon 1982).Rat anti mouse Ly-6B.2 has been successfully used for the immunomagnetic depletion of neutrophils during the enrichment of primitive hematopoietic cells from bone marrow (Bertoncello et al. 1991) and the depletion of myeloid cells in vivo (Rosas et al. 2010).