Companion Diagnostics and Medical Technology Research Group, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea.
Department of Internal Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Daegu, Korea.
J Clin Lab Anal. 2020 Jan;34(1):e23015. doi: 10.1002/jcla.23015. Epub 2019 Aug 19.
Shortening of primary cilia in kidney epithelial cells is associated with kidney injury and involved with the induced level of α-tubulin in urine. Therefore, rapid detection and quantification of α-tubulin in the urine samples could be used to the preliminary diagnosis of kidney injury.
Cellulose-based nanobeads modified with α-tubulin were used for the detection probe of competitive immunochromatographic (IC) assay. The concentration of α-tubulin in the urine samples was determined by IC assay and compared with the amount determined by Western blotting analysis.
The relationship between α-tubulin concentration and the colorimetric intensity resulted from IC assay was determined by logistic regression, and the correlation coefficient (R ) was 0.9948. When compared to the amount determined by Western blotting analysis, there was a linear relationship between the α-tubulin concentrations measured by the two methods and the R value was 0.823.
This method is simple, rapid, and adequately sensitive to detect α-tubulin in patient urine samples, which could be used for the clinical diagnosis of kidney injury.
肾脏上皮细胞中初级纤毛的缩短与肾脏损伤有关,并与尿液中α-微管蛋白的诱导水平有关。因此,快速检测和定量尿液样本中的α-微管蛋白可用于肾脏损伤的初步诊断。
用α-微管蛋白修饰的基于纤维素的纳米珠作为竞争免疫层析(IC)测定的检测探针。通过 IC 测定法确定尿液样本中α-微管蛋白的浓度,并与 Western 印迹分析确定的量进行比较。
通过逻辑回归确定了 IC 测定法中α-微管蛋白浓度与比色强度之间的关系,相关系数(R)为 0.9948。与 Western 印迹分析确定的量相比,两种方法测量的α-微管蛋白浓度之间存在线性关系,R 值为 0.823。
该方法简单、快速,足以灵敏地检测患者尿液样本中的α-微管蛋白,可用于肾脏损伤的临床诊断。