PubMed · 4105079
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A novel mechanism is presented for immunosensor development that uses an immunological competition reaction in a vesicle system. This system consists of a suspension of reconstituted vesicles, channel agonist, protein linker to block the channels, voltage sensitive dye and analyte to be detected. In the proposed mechanism analyte serves a catalytic role as individual analytes competitively displace multiple channel linkers through association with one channel, dissociation and new associations with other channels. When one channel opens on a vesicle a permanent Nernst potential develops for that vesicle leading to fluorescence of voltage sensitive dyes. The time constant of the redistribution from linker-channel form to analyte-channel form is 0.92/k4 (k4 is the off-rate constant for the analyte-channel association) in the region of analyte concentrations less than 10(-9) M. Kinetic analyses show that several factors, including concentration of analyte or linker, number of channels per vesicle, on-rate or off-rate constant of the linker-channel and on-rate constant of analyte-channel complexes have significant effects on the minimum signal response time.
Sulfidopeptide leukotrienes, which are important biomarkers for several diseases, are commonly measured by microtiter plate immunoassays. These immunoassays, however, cannot distinguish between several structurally similar leukotrienes and their cross-reactive metabolites and, therefore, need extensive sample handling and fractionation by means of liquid chromatography (LC). This paper describes the development and automation of a continuous-flow immunochemical detection (ICD) system and its subsequent on-line coupling to LC. The on-line LC-ICD system based on fluorescence-labeled leukotriene E4 (LTE4) was used to determine sulfidopeptide leukotrienes and their cross-reactive metabolites in a single run. Furthermore, biological matrices, e.g., urine and human cell extracts, were analyzed, the only sample pretreatment being on-line solid-phase extraction (SPE) on a novel RP-C4 restricted-access support. The determination limit of LTE4 in urine was 0.2 ng/mL (800 fmol; injection volume, 2000 microL; signal-to-noise ratio, 10). The system was linear from 0.2 to 1.0 ng/mL LTE4. Using nonlinear curve-fitting, the range could be expanded to 2.5 ng/mL. It is shown that, besides quantitation of known analytes, on-line LC-ICD is useful in the discovery of cross-reactive LTE4 metabolites.
A method is described for the quantitative screening of antigen analogs by competitive radioimmunoassay. This analytical procedure is based on an experimental design developed for the comparison of binding affinities by means of an empirical quantitative expression (Müller, R. (1980) J. Immunol. Methods 92, 589-601). The present analysis, which allows retention of the same general approach without sacrifice of thermodynamic rigor, is illustrated by application to literature results obtained by radioimmunoassay screening of the interactions between antigen analogs and antibodies elicited in response to (i) a scorpion toxin and (ii) 8-hydroxy-2-deoxyguanosine.