A rapid and sensitive 384‐well microtitre format chemiluminescent enzyme immunoassay for 19‐nortestosterone
- 6 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Luminescence
- Vol. 18 (2), 72-78
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bio.708
Abstract
We developed a competitive chemiluminescent (CL) enzyme immunoassay for rapid, sensitive analysis of 19-nortestosterone (19-NT) in bovine urine. Anti-19-NT polyclonal antibodies were raised in rabbits using a 19-NT-hemisuccinate derivative conjugated with ovalbumin; the derivative was also conjugated with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) as a label. Antibodies were immobilized on 384-well black polystyrene microtitre plates and HRP-labelled 19-NT activity was measured using an efficient chemiluminescent substrate (SuperSignal® ELISA Femto) after 3 min incubation. Emitted light was recorded using a conventional, photomultiplier-tube-based microtitre plate reader or a sensitive back-illuminated, cooled CCD camera. The developed method fulfils all the requirements of precision (intra- and inter-assay CV < 10%) and accuracy (mean recovery 94–112%), with a detection limit of 0.03 ppb (1.1 × 10−9 mol/L) in a urine matrix. Chemiluminescence enhances detectability of the HRP-labelled tracer (thus lowering the limit of detection with respect to colorimetry) and reduces analysis time. The 384-well microtitre plate cuts the sample/reagent volume (20 µL), a five-fold reduction with respect to the conventional 96-well microtitre plate. The developed method is suitable for high-throughput screening of 19-NT in urine samples, with reduced costs as compared with conventional colorimetric enzyme immunoassays. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.Keywords
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