Does anyone have a combo of antibody clones that will detect both soluble TNF-alpha and TNFR1-bound TNF-alpha for an ELISA assay. More details below...
In a murine model that I use, neutralization of TNF-alpha mediates survival and reduced disease in contrast to IgG treatment. However, I cannot seem to find appreciable amounts of soluble TNF-alpha via ELISA.
So I am predicting that there is a lot of either membrane-bound TNF-alpha or TNF-alpha in conjunction with soluble TNFR1. While I have other experiments in the works to look at membrane-bound TNF-alpha, and I could set up other experiments to examine TNF-alpha signaling in other assays. However, I would like to determine if there are any TNF-alpha-sTNFR1 complexes in my current samples.