IHC image of CD3 staining in a formalin fixed, paraffin embedded normal rat spleen tissue section, performed on a Leica Bond™ system using the standard protocol F. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab16669 at 1/100 dilution for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.

For other IHC staining systems (automated and non-automated) customers should optimize variable parameters such as antigen retrieval conditions, primary antibody concentration and antibody incubation times.

IHC image of CD3 staining in a formalin fixed, paraffin embedded normal human tonsil tissue section*, performed on a Leica Bond™ system using the standard protocol F. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab16669 at 1/100 dilution for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.

For other IHC staining systems (automated and non-automated) customers should optimize variable parameters such as antigen retrieval conditions, primary antibody concentration and antibody incubation times.

*Tissue obtained from the Human Research Tissue Bank, supported by the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre

IHC image of CD3 staining in mouse lymph node formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissue section, performed on a Leica Bond™ system using the standard protocol B. The section was pre-treated using heat mediated antigen retrieval with sodium citrate buffer (pH6, epitope retrieval solution 1) for 20 mins. The section was then incubated with ab16669 at 1/100 dilution for 15 mins at room temperature and detected using an HRP conjugated compact polymer system. DAB was used as the chromogen. The section was then counterstained with haematoxylin and mounted with DPX.

For other IHC staining systems (automated and non-automated) customers should optimize variable parameters such as antigen retrieval conditions, primary antibody concentration and antibody incubation times

Human peripheral blood lymphocytes stained with ab16669 (red line). Human whole blood was processed using a modified protocol based on Chow et al, 2005 (PMID: 16080188). In brief, human whole blood was fixed in 4% formaldehyde (methanol-free) for 10 min at 22°C. Red blood cells were then lyzed by the addition of Triton X-100 (final concentration - 0.1%) for 15 min at 37°C. For experimentation, cells were treated with 50% methanol (-20°C) for 15 min at 4°C. Cells were then incubated with the antibody (ab16669, 1/1000 dilution) for 30 min at 4°C. The secondary antibody used was Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (Alexa Fluor® 488) (ab150077) secondary antibody at 1/2000 dilution for 30 min at 4°C. Isotype control antibody (black line) was rabbit IgG (monoclonal) (1μg/1x10⁶ cells) used under the same conditions. Unlabelled sample (blue line) was also used as a control. Acquisition of >30,000 total events were collected using a 20mW Argon ion laser (488nm) and 525/30 bandpass filter. Gating strategy - peripheral blood lymphocytes.

Fluorescence multiplex immunohistochemical analysis of normal human tonsil tissue (formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded section).

Merged staining of anti-PD1 (ab237728; orange; Opal™520), anti-PDL1 (ab237726; green; Opal™540), anti-CD68 (ab192847; yellow; Opal™570), anti-CD3 (ab16669; red; Opal™620), anti-Ki67 (ab16667; light blue; Opal™650) and anti-PanCK (ab7753; grey; Opal™690).

The immunostaining was performed on a Leica Biosystems BOND® RX instrument with an Opal™ 7-color automation IHC kit (NEL821001KT, Akoya Biosciences®).

The section was incubated in six rounds of staining; in the order of ab237728 (1/500 dilution), ab237726 (1/500 dilution), ab192847 (1/300 dilution), ab16669 (1/300 dilution), ab16667 (1/200 dilution) and ab7753 (1/200 dilution); each using a separate fluorescent tyramide signal amplification system.

Sodium citrate antigen retrieval (Leica ER1, pH6.0, 30 minutes) was used in between rounds of tyramide signal amplification to remove the antibody from the previous round, to avoid any cross-reactivity.

DAPI (dark blue) was used as a nuclear counter stain.

Microscopy and pseudocoloring of individual Opal™ dyes was performed using a Vectra Polaris.

All lanes : Anti-CD3 antibody [SP7] (ab16669) at 1/25 dilution

Lane 1 : THP1 whole cell lysate (-ve control)
Lane 2 : Raji whole cell lysate (-ve control)
Lane 3 : Jurkat whole cell lysate
Lane 4 : Human Thymus tissue lysate
Lane 5 : Mouse Thymus tissue lysate
Lane 6 : Rat Thymus tissue lysate

Lysates/proteins at 15 µg per lane.

Secondary
All lanes : Goat anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (IRDye® 800CW) preadsorbed (ab216773) at 1/10000 dilution

Performed under reducing conditions.

Predicted band size: 23 kDa
Observed band size: 23 kDa

Lanes 1 - 6: Merged signal (red and green). Green – ab16669 observed at 23 kDa. Red - loading control, ab8245, observed at 37 kDa.

This blot was produced using a 4-12% Bis-tris gel under the MES buffer system. The gel was run at 200V for 50 minutes before being transferred onto a Nitrocellulose membrane at 30V for 70 minutes. The membrane was then blocked for an hour using Licor blocking buffer before being incubated with ab16669 and ab8245 (loading control) overnight at 4°C. Antibody binding was detected using Goat Goat anti-Rabbit IgG H&L (IRDye® 800CW) preadsorbed (ab216773) and Goat anti-Mouse IgG H&L (IRDye® 680RD) preadsorbed (ab216776) at a 1:10000 dilution for 1hr at room temperature and then imaged.

IHC using multi-spectral imaging on human lymph node (A-C) obtained from men with mCRPC. A) H+E staining and B) single-color images (plus nuclear stain; DAPI) of CD3 (ab16669), CD8 (ab101500), CD163, PD-L1, cytokeratin (CK), DAPI and C) merged.  H+E stating at 20X magnification; multi-spectral images 200X magnification.

Immunohistochemical analysis of Formaldehyde fixed, paraffin-embedded rat spleen tissue sections labelling CD3 with ab16669 at a dilution of 1/100. Biotin conjugated Goat Anti-Rabbit IgG at 1/300 dilution was used as the secondary antibody. Antigen retrieval was heat mediated using citric acid.

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Ab16669 staining CD3 in Mouse Epidydimal fat pad tissue sections by Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin embedded sections). Tissue sections were fixed with formaldehyde, blocked with 5% serum for 4 hours at 25°C and permeabilized with Triton X-100. Samples were incubated with primary antibody (1/100 in PBST with BSA and goat serum) for 4°C at 12 hours. An Alexa Fluor® 568 goat anti-rabbit IgG (H + L) cross adsorbed was used as the secondary antibody.

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Flow cytometric analysis of rabbit anti-CD3 (SP7) antibody ab16669 (1/100) in Jurkats cells (green) compare to negative control of rabbit IgG (blue).

ab16669 staining rat infarcted heart tissue by Immunohistochemistry (Formalin/PFA-fixed paraffin-embedded sections).

Myocardial infarction was produced in a rat model following the ligation of the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery. Tissue was harvested 6 w following infarct, fixed with Histochoice for 72 hr, paraffin sectioned and the slide was then baked prior to CD3 staining. ab16669 at 1/200 was incubated overnight at 4°C. The image was taken with a confocal laser scanning microscope and shows cells giving strong inmmunofluorescence staining for CD3 antigen (green), indicating presence of cells of T-lymphocytes origin in the infarct zone of the heart tissue, counterstained nuclei with DAPI (blue). Note, CD3 tended to be present in nests of 2-5 cells that were non-uniformly distributed in the infarct zone. In addition, the image shows that the CD3 localization is predominantly membrane based and to a certain extent intracytoplasmic.

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Immunohistochemical analysis of Human tonsil tissue, staining CD3 (green) with ab16669.

Antigen retrieval was performed by heat mediation in citrate buffer (pH 6) and blocked with 5% goat serum and 5% BSA for 1 hour at room temperature. Samples were incubated with primary antibody (1/100) overnight at 4°C. A Cy3®-conjugated anti-rabbit IgG was used as the secondary antibody.