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  • Title: A highly specific immunoassay for microcystin-LR detection based on a monoclonal antibody.
    Author: Sheng JW, He M, Shi HC.
    Journal: Anal Chim Acta; 2007 Nov 05; 603(1):111-8. PubMed ID: 17950065.
    Abstract:
    Microcystins (MC) are cyanobacterial hepatotoxins responsible for animal-poisoning and human health incidents. Immunoassays provide a sensitive and fast means to detect these toxins, but cross-reactivity (CR) characteristic of different antibodies was variable. Here, we have produced and characterized a monoclonal antibody (Clone MC8C10) with highly specificity against the most frequent and most toxic variant of microcystins, MC-LR. MC8C10 is more specific against MC-LR among the reported antibodies before. The immunogen was synthesized from the modified MC-LR and bovine serum albumin (BSA). An indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ic-ELISA) with MC8C10 was established to detect the MCs in waters, which showed highly specificity with MC-LR, and have a detection limit for MC-LR 0.1 microg L(-1), the 50% inhibition concentration (IC50) for MC-LR was 1.8+/-0.1 microg L(-1) and the quantitative detection range was from 0.3 to 10 microg L(-1). The [4-arginine] microcystins and the nodularin-R showed lower cross-reactivates (CR<10%), and other MCs such as MC-LF and MC-LW are not recognized (CR<10(-4)). The analysis results of real water samples with ic-ELISA showed that all the coefficients of variation were less than 15%, and the recovery was (100.3+/-5.9)%. So the highly specific ic-ELISA will commendably suit for sensitive analysis for MC-LR in surface water as well as drinking water.
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