Tumour Antigens Blog Post

[…] a direct consequence of genetic alteration caused by tumour DNA mutations and are patient-specific (3) Oncoviral antigens, derived from tumorigenic transforming viruses (4) Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs), fragments of genomic DNA […]

Anti-HPV18E6 [BF7] Product

BF7 can be used for detection of HPV in cervical smears and biopsies and analysis of E6 expression in cell transformation studies.

Anti-HPV16E6 & HPV18E6 [C1P5] Product

C1P5 can be used for detection of HPV in cervical smears and biopsies and analysis of E6 expression in cell transformation studies.

Adapted from McLean et al. 1990. J Clin Pathol. 43(6)

Anti-HPV16L1 [CamVir 1] Product

The human papilloma virus (HPV) family of DNA tumor viruses includes HPV-16 and HPV-18, which are associated with a large proportion of cervical cancer cases, and HPV-1, which is associated…

Anti-HPV16 E1/E4 [TVG 403] Product

TVG 402 and TVG 403 were the first antibodies against HPV16 E1 & E4 and should complement those already available to E7 and L1 for the screening of frozen sections of clinical biopsies. They will be of value in monitoring the progress of HPV infection from benign lesions to invasive cancer.

Adapted from Kannan et al. 2017. Sci Rep; 7

Anti-HPV16E7 [TVG 701Y] mAb Product

HPV early proteins E6 and E7 are the major viral oncoproteins that regulate cell proliferation through the inactivation of p53 and Rb1 tumour suppressor proteins respectively.

Anti-HPV16 E1/E4 [TVG 402] Product

TVG 402 and TVG 403 were the first antibodies against HPV16 E1 & E4 and should complement those already available to E7 and L1 for the screening of frozen sections of clinical biopsies. They will be of value in monitoring the progress of HPV infection from benign lesions to invasive cancer.

Adapted from Kim et al. 2016. Cancer Res. 76(21)

Anti-PyLT [PyMT] Product

PyMT allows the detection and isolation of the middle T antigen.

Anti-HHV-8 LNA-1 [LN53] Product

Rat monoclonal antibody which targets human KSHV/HHV8 and simian RFHV Orf73 latency-associated nuclear antigen (LANA or LNA) with high specificity.