I have had a number of inquiries recently about dityrosine antibodies used by my lab to look at C. elegans cuticles (e.g., from an abstract by Adam Trotta). Therefore, I have listed the information below:

We received the anti-dityrosine monoclonal antibodies from

Yoji Kato, Ph. D.
School of Humanities for Environmental Policy and Technology
Himeji Institute of Technology
1-1-12 Shinzaike-Honcho, Himeji City, Hyogo 670-0092, JAPAN

e-mail:yojikato@hept.himeji-tech.ac.jp

These MAbs are described in Kato et al., 2000, Immunochemical detection of protein dityrosine in atherosclerotic lesion of apo-E-deficient mice using a novel monoclonal antibody, Biochem Biophys Res Commun 275:11-15, 2000. [PubMed abstract]