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Plan chromogenic ENO1 IHC in paraffin sections using the 0.5–1 μg/mL range for A01250-1 (datasheet A01250-1). Use bronchial basal cells as a high-staining reference and assess cytoplasmic and nuclear staining (HPA tissue IHC).
Expected localisation, validated protocols, controls and antibodies — the at-a-glance facts below, then the full design guide.
| Expected localisation | Cytoplasmic and nuclear tissue staining (HPA tissue IHC) | |
| Staining pattern | Widespread cytoplasmic and nuclear staining (HPA tissue IHC) | |
| Antigen retrieval | EDTA pH 8.0 HIER, heat-mediated (datasheet A01250-1) | |
| Positive control | Bronchus+4 more · see all | |
| Negative control | None in HPA (detected in all 45 tissues); use no-primary + isotype controls |
| Fixation | Keep fixation consistent across paraffin sections (standard IHC practice; not target-specific) | |
| Caveat | Splice/transcript discrepancy may complicate interpretation (HPA tissue IHC) | |
| Regulation | Hypoxia tolerance; IHC effect unknown (UniProt) | |
| Isoform / epitope | 2 isoforms; no transmembrane segment; epitope scope unknown (UniProt) |
Compare the catalog antibody’s IHC-P protocol (datasheet A01250-1) with four published ENO1 tissue protocols (PMC12571633; PMC10931177; PMC7893569; PMC3233504).
| Sample | Paraffin-embedded human liver cancer tissue; fixative not specified (datasheet A01250-1) |
| Fixation | Image fixative and duration unreported (datasheet A01250-1); verify before use. |
| Sectioning | 4–5 µm sections on charged slides (standard) |
| Deparaffinisation | Xylene, graded ethanol series to water (standard) |
| Antigen retrieval | Heat retrieval: EDTA pH 8.0 (datasheet A01250-1); 20 min, 95–100 °C (standard) |
| Peroxidase block | 3% H2O2, 10 min, room temperature (standard) |
| Blocking | 10% goat serum (datasheet A01250-1) |
| Primary antibody | Rabbit anti-ENO1, 0.5-1μg/ml (datasheet A01250-1) |
| Primary incubation | Overnight at 4 °C (datasheet A01250-1) |
| Detection | Streptavidin-biotin complex (SABC), DAB chromogen (datasheet A01250-1) |
| Counterstain | Hematoxylin, blue, dehydrate and mount (standard) |
| Expected result | ENO1-positive staining in basal cells of bronchus (HPA tissue IHC: High). HPA tissue profile: Ubiquitous cytoplasmic and nuclear expression. No signal in the no-primary control. |
ENO1 should stain cytoplasm and may stain nuclei across many cell types; HPA describes a ubiquitous cytoplasmic and nuclear IHC pattern, with high staining in bronchial basal cells, fallopian tube non-ciliated cells and lung alveolar type I cells (HPA tissue IHC). UniProt also places ENO1 at the cell membrane and reports no transmembrane segment (UniProt P06733 topology). HPA rates the tissue pattern Supported, with medium staining–RNA consistency and a splice/transcript discrepancy (HPA tissue IHC).
| Bronchial basal cells, fallopian tube non-ciliated cells or lung alveolar type I cells show strong cytoplasmic staining, with possible nuclear staining (HPA tissue IHC). | This fits HPA's High staining calls and its broader cytoplasmic and nuclear profile (HPA tissue IHC). Score intensity and compartment in identified cells rather than treating every stained structure as equally informative (general IHC practice). |
| Staining is confined to an unexpected structure, with no discernible cytoplasmic signal in expected positive cells (HPA tissue IHC; UniProt P06733 subcellular location). | Check morphology and detection background before assigning ENO1 localisation (general IHC practice). Nuclear or membrane staining alone is not automatically erroneous: both compartments have source support (HPA tissue IHC; UniProt P06733 subcellular location). |
| Fibroblasts dominate the signal while nearby expected positive cells are unstained (HPA tissue IHC). | HPA lists soft-tissue fibroblasts as Low, so this reversal warrants a cross-reactivity or endogenous-detection check (HPA tissue IHC; general IHC practice). Low means weak expected staining, not an absolute negative control (HPA tissue IHC). |
| Chromogen forms a broad haze across tissue and spaces without a clear cellular pattern (general IHC practice). | Diffuse background limits compartment and cell-level scoring; assess nonspecific detection, blocking and washing with appropriate reagent controls (general IHC practice). It cannot establish widespread ENO1 expression by itself. |
| A section containing bronchial basal cells has no interpretable signal in those cells (HPA tissue IHC). | Those cells are an HPA High reference, so first check section integrity, antibody use and detection performance (HPA tissue IHC; general IHC practice). An absent signal alone cannot establish that the specimen lacks ENO1. |
| Tissue and cell choice | Bronchial basal cells, fallopian tube non-ciliated cells and lung alveolar type I cells are High references; cardiomyocytes, smooth muscle cells, skeletal myocytes and fibroblasts are Low, not confirmed negatives (HPA tissue IHC). Compare like cell populations when judging intensity (general IHC practice). |
| Compartment and topology | HPA reports cytoplasmic and nuclear tissue staining; UniProt lists cytoplasm, nucleus and cell membrane, with no transmembrane segment or signal peptide (HPA tissue IHC; UniProt P06733). These annotations do not predict a distinct membrane outline in every paraffin section. |
| Antibody evidence | CAB018614, CAB069394 and CAB080034 have Supported IHC status; HPA068284 and HPA068721 have no listed IHC status (HPA antibodies). Supported evidence helps set expectations but does not validate every section, detector or scoring threshold (general IHC practice). |
| Isoforms and epitope scope | UniProt lists alpha-enolase and MBP-1 isoforms, plus modified residues (UniProt P06733). The supplied record does not map an IHC antibody epitope or show which isoforms it detects, so a compartment pattern cannot identify an isoform. |
| IF/ICC Q: What pattern is reported? | A: HPA describes mainly plasma-membrane and cytosol localisation in ICC-IF (HPA subcellular). That observation can inform compartment interpretation, but it is separate from HPA's tissue IHC staining profile and is not an IHC protocol (HPA tissue IHC; HPA subcellular). |
| Situation | Likely cause | Next action |
|---|---|---|
| No stain in expected High cells (HPA tissue IHC). | An uninformative section, failed detection or unsuitable assay conditions may explain absent signal (general IHC practice). | Confirm the named cell type and section quality; run a known positive section and detection control, then review the antibody's IHC instructions, including retrieval if specified (general IHC practice). ENO1-specific retrieval sensitivity is unreported here. |
| Signal covers most tissue as a uniform brown haze (general IHC practice). | Nonspecific antibody or detection background may obscure cellular staining (general IHC practice). | Inspect a no-primary control, blocking, washing and detector settings; interpret only staining that resolves to cells and compartments (general IHC practice). |
| Chromogen appears in control sections without primary antibody (general IHC practice). | Endogenous detection activity or a detector-related artifact is possible (general IHC practice). | Apply the detector's appropriate endogenous-activity control or block and repeat the no-primary comparison before attributing signal to ENO1 (general IHC practice). |
| Fibroblasts stain strongly while bronchial basal cells are weak or blank (HPA tissue IHC). | This reverses the supplied Low and High reference levels; cross-reactivity or a technical difference is possible (HPA tissue IHC; general IHC practice). | Verify cell identity and compare an HPA High reference with controls under the same staining run; review antibody-specific IHC validation (HPA antibodies; general IHC practice). |
| A membrane edge or nuclear signal is dismissed as an artifact solely because it is not cytoplasmic (HPA tissue IHC; UniProt P06733). | That rule overlooks reported nuclear and membrane localisation (HPA tissue IHC; UniProt P06733 subcellular location). | Recheck cellular morphology and control staining; record compartments separately. Do not infer that membrane-associated ENO1 spans the membrane (UniProt P06733 topology; general IHC practice). |
| Low-staining muscle cells or fibroblasts are used as an absolute negative control (HPA tissue IHC). | HPA labels these cells Low, while describing ENO1 tissue expression as ubiquitous (HPA tissue IHC). | Use them only for relative intensity context; rely on reagent controls to assess detection background and a named High cell population to check positive performance (HPA tissue IHC; general IHC practice). |
Comprehensive Human Protein Atlas IHC scoring per tissue (reliability: Supported — Medium consistency between antibody staining and RNA expression data. Caution, Splice and/or transcript discrepancy exists.). Rows are taken directly from the HPA tissue chart — click any row's HPA link to view the source.
| Tissue | Cell type | Level | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bronchus | Basal cells | High | Protein (IHC) | HPA → |
| Fallopian tube | Non-ciliated cells | High | Protein (IHC) | HPA → |
| Lung | Alveolar cells type I | High | Protein (IHC) | HPA → |
| Adipose tissue | Adipocytes | Medium | Protein (IHC) | HPA → |
| Adrenal gland | Glandular cells | Medium | Protein (IHC) | HPA → |
| Tissue | Cell type | Level | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| None in HPA: ENO1 is detected in all 45 scored tissues. Use a no-primary (secondary-only) and an isotype control instead. | ||||
Troubleshoot ENO1 staining in paraffin sections by checking retrieval, compartment patterns, controls and scoring before interpreting chromogenic signal.
Anti-ENO1 IHC images cover paraffin sections of human liver cancer and cerebellum and mouse and rat testis; an IF image covers A431 cells (catalog image captions: A01250-1, A01250-3).
A01250-1 lists IHC and IF/ICC, with IHC images from human liver cancer and mouse and rat testis and an IF image from A431 cells; A01250-3 lists IHC, with images from mouse and rat testis and human cerebellum (catalog applications and image captions). M01250 lists IF/ICC and has a paraffin human colon IHC image, although IHC is absent from its application list and no IF image is supplied (catalog applications and image captions).
Which to pick: For tissue IHC, choose A01250-1 at 0.5–1 μg/ml or A01250-3 at 2–5 μg/ml, matching the sample to each SKU’s own paraffin IHC captions; the captions do not report the fixative (catalog dilutions and IHC captions). For IF/ICC, A01250-1 has an A431 IF image at 2 μg/ml, while monoclonal M01250 (clone AEA-5) lists IF/ICC at 1:50 without an IF image (catalog IF caption, applications, clone field and dilutions). For human, mouse and rat tissue IHC, both A01250-1 and A01250-3 have species matched IHC captions; A01250-1 also lists monkey reactivity, without a monkey IHC caption (catalog reactivity and IHC captions).