Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Insufficient antibody validation challenges oestrogen receptor beta research

  • Sandra Andersson,
  • Mårten Sundberg,
  • Nusa Pristovsek,
  • Ahmed Ibrahim,
  • Philip Jonsson,
  • Borbala Katona,
  • Carl-Magnus Clausson,
  • Agata Zieba,
  • Margareta Ramström,
  • Ola Söderberg,
  • Cecilia Williams,
  • Anna Asplund

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15840
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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A large body of work into the role of oestrogen receptor b (ERb) in breast cancer is contradictory, hindering future progress. Here the authors conduct extensive validation of anti-ERb antibodies , and show that normal and cancerous breast tissue do not express ERb, consistent with RNA-seq data.