Microparticle-enhanced nephelometric immunoassay with microsphere-antigen conjugates.
Bioconjug Chem
; 3(2): 187-93, 1992.
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in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-1515472
ABSTRACT
gamma-Irradiation of acrolein and other acrylic monomers allowed the synthesis of spherical polyfunctional hydrophilic microparticles in the size range of 50 to 300 nm, on which antigens (immunoglobulins G, chorionic gonadotropin hormone, prealbumin) could be covalently bound. Microsphere-antigen conjugates clustered together in the presence of specific antiserum or monoclonal antibodies and their agglutination was quantified by light-scattering measurement performed with a specially designed nephelometer. Essential factors concerning the conjugate agglutination and its quantitation (size of microsphere, amount of antigen bound on microsphere, concentration of conjugate, concentration of agglutinating reagent, angle of light-scattering observation) were successively studied. A microparticle-enhanced nephelometric immunoassay for prealbumin was finally developed as an example of application. It was based on the inhibition of the immunoagglutination of microspheres-prealbumin conjugate by free prealbumin. This prealbumin immunoassay was easy to perform (one-step assay without washing or phase separation), fast (30 min), reliable (variation coefficients ranged from 3.6% to 7.5% for within- and between-assay determination), and sensitive (1 microgram/L detected). It was correlated with conventional immunonephelometry and radial immunodiffusion (correlation coefficients, 0.98). Microparticle-enhanced nephelometric immunoassay offered many advantages over the last two methods. Its better sensitivity allowed a lower reagent consumption and a larger sample dilution (contrary to the conventional immunonephelometry, sample pretreatment and sample blank measurement were unnecessary). Its inhibition mode induced a total accuracy for sample with high analyte concentration (a risk of underevaluation in antigen excess conditions existed in all method based on a noncompetitive antigen-antibody reaction) and provided the possibility to quantify haptens.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Prealbumin
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Immunoassay
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Microspheres
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Antigens
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Bioconjug Chem
Journal subject:
BIOQUIMICA
Year:
1992
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
France