A SIMPLE THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF A COMPETITIVE ENZYME-LINKED-IMMUNOSORBENT-ASSAY (ELISA) AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE DETECTION OF HUMAN BLOOD-GROUP ANTIGENS
A SIMPLE THEORETICAL TREATMENT OF A COMPETITIVE ENZYME-LINKED-IMMUNOSORBENT-ASSAY (ELISA) AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE DETECTION OF HUMAN BLOOD-GROUP ANTIGENS
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-1759(90)90237-p
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发表时间:
1990-07-20
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
JONES, MN
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作者:
CHAPMAN, V;FLETCHER, SM;JONES, MN
A theory has been developed to explain the behavior of a competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) in which an immobilized antigen competes with a liquid-phase antigen for a limiting amount of antibody. The binding of antibody to antigen on a solid surface (microtitre well) is described in terms of Langmuirian adsorption with a binding constant k. Two equations are presented to describe the behaviour of the ELISA signal as a function of competing antigen concentration; an exact equation and an approximate equation which can be used when the surface coverage of the immobilized antigen is not known. It is shown how curve of ELISA signal vs. competing antigen concentration depend on K/k[antibody]. The theory has been tested using several immobilized blood group A antigens competing with ovarian cyst fluid A substance and found to adequately describe these competitive ELISAs which have a detection limit of approximately 1 ng of blood group antigen.