Luo- antibody 3

Question 1

If your epitope is really small this is a problem because

But you can use a

Answer 1

the immune system does not typically mount a response to molecules < 5kDa
carrier protein to express your antigen

Question 2

Polyclonal antibody preparations are useful for

Answer 2

binding proteins that are present in higher order complexes, because some of the determinants may be buried and they can recognize multiple antigenic determinants