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  • Title: Affinity probe capillary electrophoresis of insulin using a fluorescence-labeled recombinant Fab as an affinity probe.
    Author: Shimura K, Kasai K.
    Journal: Electrophoresis; 2014 Mar; 35(6):840-5. PubMed ID: 24375486.
    Abstract:
    Affinity probe CE (APCE) separates and detects a target molecule as a complex using a fluorescence-labeled affinity probe (AP) by CE. The electrophoretic separation of the complex ensures accurate identification of a specific signal among nonspecific ones, which often compromises the credibility of immunoassays. APCE of insulin using a recombinant Fab (rFab) as an AP was demonstrated as a model system in this report. Anti-insulin rFab was expressed in Escherichia coli and labeled at a cysteine residue in the hinge region with a thiol-reactive rhodamine dye. Electrophoretically pure labeled rFab was recovered from a focused band in slab-gel IEF and used as an AP. A mixture of standard insulin and the AP with carrier ampholyte was introduced into a neutral-polymer coated fused silica capillary (50 μm id, 120 mm long). IEF was carried out at 500 V/cm, and the capillary was scanned for laser-induced fluorescence under focusing conditions. The insulin-AP complex focused at pH 6.6 within 6 min along with the free AP at pH 7.6. The complex peak decayed according to the first-order reaction kinetics with a half life of 3.8 min. A linear calibration line was obtained for standard insulin at a concentration range of 20 pM to 5 nM using the AP at 50 nM. These results demonstrate that rFab is useful for the preparation of an AP for APCE.
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