Table 1.

Antibodies used in this study

Antibody	Antibody type	Immunizing antigen	Immunoreactivity in western immunoblotting	Immunoreactivity in immunohistochemistry
Anti-DMP1-C-857a	Polyclonal	Oligopeptide (residues 471–485)	Yes	Yes
Anti-DMP1-N-9B6.3b	Monoclonal	37 kDa (N-terminal)	Yes	Very weak
Anti-DMP1-N-859c	Polyclonal	Oligopeptide (residues 101–121)	Yes	Yes
Anti-DMP1-C-8G10.3d	Monoclonal	57 kDa (C-terminal)	No	Yes

^aThis polyclonal antibody was used to detect the C-terminal fragment of DMP1 by western blotting analysis (Huang et al. 2008)

^bThis monoclonal antibody was used to detect the N-terminal fragment of DMP1 by western blotting analysis (Qin et al. 2006)

^cThis polyclonal antibody was used to detect the N-terminal fragment of DMP1 by immunohistochemistry analysis (Maciejewska et al. 2009)

^dThis monoclonal antibody was used to detect the C-terminal fragment of DMP1 by immunohistochemistry analysis (Baba et al. 2004)