Korean J Lab Med.  2006 Jun;26(3):185-191. 10.3343/kjlm.2006.26.3.185.

Development of Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Erythropoietin

• Kim KH
• Shim JH
• Cho MC
• Kang JW
• Yoon HE
• Yoon DY
• Kim JW
• Son DJ
• Lee JW
• Jeong ES
• Hong JT
• Moon DC

• KMID: 2238885
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3343/kjlm.2006.26.3.185

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The aim of our study was to optimize and establish erythropoietin (EPO) enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system.
METHODS
We prepared several monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies specific to human-EPO. The best combinations of antibodies for coating and detecting antibodies were selected for the establishment of ELISA. We tested several methods such as a competitive EIA and a sandwich ELISA.
RESULTS
The best sandwich ELISA was optimized compared to competitive EIA when purified polyclonal antibody (PoAb) was used as a coating antibody and biotinylated PoAb as a detecting antibody. This sandwich ELISA easily detected EPO when PoAb pairs were used compared to the ELISA using monoclonal antibody and PoAb. There were no significant differences between the effects of various blocking solutions on the performance of sandwich ELISA using biotinylated antibody. The ELISA system using PBST containing 3% BSA as a blocking solution can sensitively detect EPO (10 mU/mL) in a broad range of EPO concentrations (10-2,000 mU/mL) and there were cross-reactions with other cytokines).
CONCLUSIONS
EPO can be easily determined by using biotinylated PoAb as a detecting antibody and another PoAb as a coating antibody.

Keyword

EPO; ELISA; HRP; Biotinylated Ab; Streptavidin-HRP

MeSH Terms

Antibodies
Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay*
Erythropoietin*
Antibodies
Erythropoietin

Figure

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  Fig. 1. Competitive enzyme immunoassay for EPO by coincubating EPO with HRP-labelled EPO (A) or biotin labelled EPO (B) onto the coated polyclonal antibody. Polyclonal antibody (PoAb) was coated onto the wells and then blocked with blocking solution. Then biotin-labelled EPO (or HRP-labelled EPO) and free EPO were coincubated in the PoAb coated wells in order to perform a competitive enzyme immunoassay. The wells treated with biotinylated PoAb was further incubated with streptavidin-HRP and washed with PBST. The HRP activity was then detected with TMB substrate as described in “Materials and Methods” section. Error bars display the mean±standard deviation of three determinations.

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  Fig. 2. Binding inhibition assay for selecting antibody pairs in the performance of EPO sandwich ELISA. EPO was coated onto the wells and then blocked with blocking solution. Then a constant amount of PoAb-HRP (1:400) or mAb-HRP (1:400) was coincubated with various concentrations of PoAb for 1 hr and washed with PBST. The wells treated with biotinylated PoAb was further incubated with Streptavidin-HRP and washed with PBST. The HRP activity was then detected with TMB substrate as described in the “Materials and Methods” section. Error bars display the mean± standard deviation of three determinations.

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  Fig. 3. Sandwich ELISA using a biotinylated antibody (A) and HRP-conjugated polyclonal antibody (B). PoAb was coated into a microtiter plate and incubated with EPO for 1 hr. Then biotinylated Ab, or PoAb-HRP was incubated for 1 hr. The wells treated with biotinylated PoAb was further incubated with streptavidin-HRP and washed with PBST. The HRP activity was then detected with TMB substrate as described in the “Materials and Methods” section. Error bars display the mean±standard deviation of three determinations.

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  Fig. 4. The effect of various blocking solutions on the performance of sandwich ELISA using biotinylated antibody. PoAb was coated into microtiter plate, incubated with various blocking solutions, and incubated with EPO for 1 hr after washing. Then biotinylated PoAb was incubated for 1 hr followed by further incubation with streptavidin-HRP. After washing with PBST, the HRP activity was detected with TMB substrate as described in the “Materials and Methods” section. Error bars display the mean±standard deviation of three determinations.

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  Fig. 5. The effect of various matrices on the performance of sandwich ELISA using biotinylated antibody. PoAb was coated into microtiter plate and incubated with EPO diluted with various matrices for 1 hr. Then biotinylated PoAb was incubated for 1 hr followed by further incubation with streptavidin-HRP. After washing with PBST, the HRP activity was then detected with TMB substrate as described in the “Materials and Methods” section. Error bars display the mean±standard deviation of three determinations.

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  Fig. 6. The specificity of sandwich EPO ELISA. PoAb was coated into a microtiter plate and incubated with EPO or other glycoprotein cytokines for 1 hr. Then biotinylated PoAb was incubated for 1 hr followed by further incubation with streptavidin-HRP. After washing with PBST, the HRP activity was detected with TMB substrate as described in the “Materials and Methods” section. Error bars display the mean±standard deviation of three determinations.

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  Fig. 7. Dilution linearity of EPO. A high concentration of EPO (2,000 mU/mL) was diluted and then determined EPO concentration according to the diluted samples by using sandwich EPO ELISA.

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