I have been using ECL mix to detect the optimum primary antibody concentrations for a western blot and found out that even without the primary antibody I get bands though they are quiet light. The one probed with primary+secondary antibody gives much stronger signal. Does it mean that the strong band on the blot doesn't come from the protein of interest but it is non-specific binding? Can anyone shed some light? please! I use rabbit polyclonal antibody from Santa Cruz and ECL anti-rabbit IgG,HRP-linked whole antibody from donkey (Amersham).