• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.70-74
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• 2003

The heterogeneous bioluminescence immunoassay for digoxin was developed using photoprotein, native aequorin as a label and the site-directed immobilization technique based on avidin/biotin interaction. Aequorin is a bioluminescence protein, originally isolated from the jellyfish Aequoria Victoria and an attractive label in analytical applications because of sensitive detection due to virtually no background bioluminescent signal. Digoxin is a cardioactive drug, and its therapeutic level in serum is at low concentration with very narrow therapeutic index. The aequorin-digoxigenin conjugates were synthesized by the N-hydroxysuccinimide ester method and characterized in terms of bioluminescent residual activity. The resulting dose-response curve shows that the detection limit is $1.0\;{\times}\;10^{-10}\;M$ and a dynamic range is three orders of magnitude, which was obtained by $1.0\;{times}\;10^{-10}\;M$ conjugate and 0.9 μg/mL anti-digoxin antibody. Three structurally similar molecules to digoxin were examined for their cross-reactivity. None of these three compounds showed any crossreactivity with digoxin antibody employed in this study. Standard amounts of digoxin corresponding to the therapeutic range were spiked into the each serum solution. Study of the serum matrix effect indicated that correlation coefficient shows good agreement between luminescence light intensity between in buffer and in serum.

• 분석과학
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.60-67
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• 2010

본 연구는 생물발광단백질인 aequorin을 표지물질로 사용해 신경전달물질인 serotonin에 대한 생물 발광면역분석법을 처음으로 개발하였다: serotonin-avidin 접합체는 Mannich 법으로 합성하였으며, 최적화된 avidin: formaldehyde: serotonin의 초기 몰 비는 1:12,000:25 이었다. 개발된 serotonin에 대한 생물발광면 역분석법은 좋은 감도(LOD of 0.68 ng/mL)와 넓은 검출 범위($5.0{\times}10^{-10}\;M\sim5.0{\times}10^{-7}\;M$)를 나타내었다(참고, 혈청 내 serotonin의 양은 $151{\pm}45\;ng$/mL 이다.). 교차반응성에 대한 연구 결과, 5-methoxytryptamine은 28.0% 의 교차반응성을 보인 반면, 3-methylindole, melatonin 그리고 5-hydroxylindole-3-acetic acid 은 교차반응성을 보이지 않았다. 또한, 혈청에서의 회수율은 만족할만한 값이 얻어졌다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서 제안된 생물발광면역분석법은 혈청 내의 serotonin 을 모니터링 하는데 좋은 분석법으로 사용될 수 있다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.407-412
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• 2006

Bioluminescence single-site immunometric assay for methamphetamine (MA) using the native aequorin, a photoprotein, as a signal generator was developed for the first time. MA is a potent sympathomimetic amine with stimulant effects on the central nervous system. MA abuse induces hallucinations and, thus, may cause a serious social problem. The single-site immunometric MA assay was optimized and its dose-response behavior was examined. The dose-response curve shows that the detection limit is 1.1 ${\times}$ $10^{-10}$ M and a dynamic range is four orders of magnitude with 15 $\mu$g/mL BSA-MA conjugate and 1.0 ${\times}$ $10^{-8}$ M anti-MA antibody-biotin conjugate. In order to evaluate this assay, the structurally similar compounds, amphetamine, ephedrine, norephedrine, benzphetamine and N-4-(aminobutyl)methamphetamine were examined for their crossreactivity. None of these five compounds showed any cross-reactivity. Additionally, an artificial urine solution spiked with MA was analyzed by the MA assay, and the result of the analysis demonstrated the usefulness of the present assay for the determination of MA in urine.