Laboratory Medicine ›› 2015, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (9): 931-933.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-8640.2015.09.015

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Preparation of polyclonal antibody and development of a competitive ELISA for fungal (1,3)-beta-D-glucan

YAN Jun1, YANG Wei2, ZHAI Shuanzhu1, XUE Zhixin1, YU Peng1, ZHOU Zeqi1   

  1. 1. College of Biotechnology, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin 300457, China
    2.Tianjin Medical Instrument Technical Evaluation Center, Tianjin 300070, China
  • Received:2015-02-25 Online:2015-09-30 Published:2015-09-29

Abstract: Objective

To develop a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) with high specificity and sensitivity for fungal (1,3)-beta-D-glucan.

Methods

Rabbit polyclonal antibody was produced by immunization with protein-conjugated (1,3)-beta-D-glucan and fungal extract. The highest titer and little cross-reactivity polyclonal antibody was labeled with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and purified. Finally, a competitive ELISA was established for fungal (1,3)-beta-D-glucan.

Results

The linear range was 3.125-200 pg/mL. The recovery range for 100, 25 and 6.25 pg/mL serum antigen was 97.8%-113.6%, and the coefficient of variation for repeated test was <15%. The detection system could effectively detect low concentrations of Aspergillus fumigatus and Candida albicans and high concentration of Cryptococcus neoformans from serum samples. Meanwhile, the detection system demonstrated little interference against 5 kinds of pathogenic bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Klebsiella and Staphylococcus aureus.

Conclusions

A competitive ELISA is developed successfully for the detection of invasive fungal disease with (1,3)-beta-D-glucan used as a coated antigen and enzyme-labeled antibody HRP-Ab3B used as a detection antibody.

Key words: (1,3)-beta-D-glucan, Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, Invasive fungal disease

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