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Development of a Three-Plex Single Molecule Immunoassay Enabling Measurement of the EGFR Ligands Amphiregulin, Betacellulin and Transforming Growth Factor α Simultaneously in Human Serum Samples

Development of a Three-Plex Single Molecule Immunoassay Enabling Measurement of the EGFR Ligands Amphiregulin, Betacellulin and Transforming Growth Factor α Simultaneously in Human Serum Samples

Dorte Aalund Olsen, Ina Mathilde Kjaer, Ivan Brandslund

J Immunol Methods. 2018 Aug;459:63-69.

PMID: 29803775

Abstract:

Background:
Prior to large studies in breast cancer patients and healthy individuals we established a sensitive three-plex immunoassay to measure the EGFR ligands amphiregulin (AR), betacellulin (BTC) and transforming growth factor α (TGF-α) simultaneously in human serum samples.
Method:
The three-plex immunoassay was developed using single molecule array (Simoa) technology and requires only 20 μL of serum.
Results:
AR, BTC and TGF-α were first established as three single-plex assays. Multiplexing the three single-plex assays showed no significant cross reactivity between the reagents. The concentrations of the ligands in serum samples showed correlations r2 ≥ 0.84 between the single-plex and three-plex methods. The three-plex assay demonstrated limit of detection levels at 0.16 ng/L for AR, 0.23 ng/L for BTC and 0.22 ng/L for TGF-α. Total coefficients of variations were 8.5%-31% for AR, 11%-21.8% for BTC and 12.4%-16.2% for TGF-α. Spiking experiments showed a mean recovery of 97% for AR, 86% for BTC and 81% for TGF-α. The concentrations of the EGFR ligands did not change significantly after series of freeze thaw cycles or incubation at 22 °C for up to 24 h.
Conclusion:
This robust three-plex assay with up to 40-fold increase in sensitivity relative to conventional ELISA is the first published method that has the required sensitivity to measure AR, BTC and TGF-α simultaneously in human blood samples.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP163150127	Betacellulin human		163150-12-7	Price

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