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ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 14, Pages 4489-4494Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ac050231u
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A novel CE-based noncompetitive immunoassay for prion protein (PrP) was established. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC)-labeled protein A (FITC-PrA) was used as a fluorescent probe to tag monoclonal antibody through noncovalent binding of FITC-PrA to the Fe region of the antibody. The FITC-PrA-Ab was incubated with the analyte, prion protein, under optimized condition, forming the immunocomplex FITC-PrA-Ab-PrP. The complex was separated and analyzed by capillary zone electrophoresis. The addition of carboxytnethyl-beta-cyclodextrin in the running buffer as dynamical coating reagent improved the reproducibility and the resolution. The complex was isolated in less than 1 min with theoretical plates of 3.8 X 10(4). Relative standard deviations of peak height and migration time for the complex were 3.46 and 1.48%, respectively. A linear relationship was established for the bovine recombinant prion protein (rPrP) concentration in the range from 0.2 to 2.0 mu g/mL and the peak height. The correlation factor was r(2) = 0.9969. The estimated detection limit for rPrP was similar to 6 ng/mL, which is 3 times the signal-to-noise ratio. The method was successfully applied for testing blood samples from scrapie-infected sheep.
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