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The Zpr-3 antibody recognizes the 320-354 region of Rho and labels both rods and green cones in zebrafish

Gao, P.; Qin, Y.; Qu, Z.; Huang, Y.; Liu, X.; Li, J.; Liu, F.; Liu, M.

2022-02-22 developmental biology
10.1101/2022.02.21.481375 bioRxiv
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Retinal markers with high quality and specificity are important for the observation of pathologic changes of retinal cells during retinal development, degeneration, and regeneration. Zpr-3 is a mouse monoclonal antibody with uncharacterized antigen usually used to label rod photoreceptors. In this study, we provided evidence to demonstrate that the antigen gene of zpr-3 is rho, which encodes the rod opsin, and the exact epitope of zpr-3 is the 320-354 region of Rho protein. More importantly, our immunofluorescence assays indicated that zpr-3 labels both the outer segments of rods and green-cones on zebrafish retinal sections, probably due to the cross-reaction with the green-cone opsin. Our work is valuable for the scientific community to interpret the experimental data involving the zpr-3 antibody.

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