Monoclonal antibodies for plant cell walls
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A NSF-funded Project to:


Generate monoclonal antibodies that recognize carbohydrate structures within plant cell walls.

Characterize the epitope structures recognized by these antibodies

Make the monoclonal antibodies available to the scientific community


horsetail images
Horsetail stem labeled with monoclonal antibodies that recognize:

Fucosylated xyloglucan (CCRC-M1)

1,4 linked galactan (LM5)

1,5-linked arabinan (LM6)


News:

[Updated July 12 2007]

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Experimental protocols are available here

A National Science Foundation-funded (Grant No DBI-0421683) research project at
The Complex Carbohydrate Research Center of The University of Georgia

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