Sensitive Monoclonal Antibody-Based Sandwich Elisa for Determination of the Diabetes-Associated Autoantigen Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase GAD65
- 1 November 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Immunoassay
- Vol. 18 (4), 289-307
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01971529708005823
Abstract
Although various methods for the detection of autoantibodies against glutamic acid decarboxylase (GAD65-AAb) are known, no sensitive method for the quantification of GAD65 as autoantigen is available. We describe a sandwich ELISA based on monoclonal GAD65 antibodies (Mc-GAD65-Ab) of different epitope specificities to quantify GAD65 in pancreatic islets and in different organ/cell extracts and during the preparation of GAD from brain extracts. GAD65 was captured via solid phase coated Mc-GAD65-Ab and detected via a second biotin-labelled Mc-GAD65-Ab recognizing a NH2-terminal epitope of the molecule. The detection limit was estimated to be 0.03 ng GAD65/ml using alkaline phosphatase (AP)-conjugated streptavidin. GAD65 contents in islets of neonatal BB/OK rats and Lewis rats amounted to 37.4 and 43.7 pg/islet, respectively. Furthermore, GAD65 was quantified in brain extracts of pig (55.1 ng/mg protein), mouse (39.5 ng/mg), rat (243.8 ng/mg) and pig cerebellum (514.8 ng/mg) and in different organ extracts of Lewis rat.Keywords
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