Department of Entomology and Nematology and UCD Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Davis, California 95616, United States.
Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Rouen University Hospital & Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) U1096, Normandie University, UNIROUEN, Rouen 76031, France.
Anal Chem. 2020 May 19;92(10):7334-7342. doi: 10.1021/acs.analchem.0c01115. Epub 2020 Apr 27.
Nanobodies have been progressively replacing traditional antibodies in various immunological methods. However, the use of nanobodies as capture antibodies is greatly hampered by their poor performance after passive adsorption to polystyrene microplates, and this restricts the full use of double nanobodies in sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). Herein, using the human soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) as a model analyte, we found that both the immobilization format and the blocking agent have a significant influence on the performance of capture nanobodies immobilized on polystyrene and the subsequent development of double-nanobody sandwich ELISAs. We first conducted epitope mapping for pairing nanobodies and then prepared a horseradish-peroxidase-labeled nanobody using a mild conjugation procedure as a detection antibody throughout the work. The resulting sandwich ELISA using a capture nanobody (A9, 1.25 μg/mL) after passive adsorption and bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a blocking agent generated a moderate sensitivity of 0.0164 OD·mL/ng and a limit of detection (LOD) of 0.74 ng/mL. However, the introduction of streptavidin as a linker to the capture nanobody at the same working concentration demonstrated a dramatic 16-fold increase in sensitivity (0.262 OD·mL/ng) and a 25-fold decrease in the LOD for sEH (0.03 ng/mL). The streptavidin-bridged double-nanobody ELISA was then successfully applied to tests for recovery, cross-reactivity, and real samples. Meanwhile, we accidentally found that blocking with skim milk could severely damage the performance of the capture nanobody by an order of magnitude compared with BSA. This work provides guidelines to retain the high effectiveness of the capture nanobody and thus to further develop the double-nanobody ELISA for various analytes.
纳米抗体在各种免疫学方法中逐渐取代了传统抗体。然而,纳米抗体作为捕获抗体的应用受到很大限制,因为它们在被动吸附到聚苯乙烯微板后性能不佳,这限制了双纳米抗体在夹心酶联免疫吸附测定(ELISA)中的充分应用。在此,我们以人可溶性环氧化物水解酶(sEH)为模型分析物,发现固定化模式和封闭剂对固定在聚苯乙烯上的捕获纳米抗体的性能以及随后开发双纳米抗体夹心 ELISA 有显著影响。我们首先进行了配对纳米抗体的表位作图,然后使用温和的偶联程序制备辣根过氧化物酶标记的纳米抗体作为检测抗体,贯穿整个工作。使用被动吸附的捕获纳米抗体(A9,1.25μg/mL)和牛血清白蛋白(BSA)作为封闭剂的夹心 ELISA 产生了中等灵敏度(0.0164 OD·mL/ng)和检测限(LOD)(0.74ng/mL)。然而,在相同工作浓度下,将链霉亲和素作为连接物引入捕获纳米抗体可使灵敏度提高 16 倍(0.262 OD·mL/ng),sEH 的 LOD 降低 25 倍(0.03ng/mL)。然后,成功地将链霉亲和素桥接的双纳米抗体 ELISA 应用于回收率、交叉反应性和实际样品的测试。同时,我们意外地发现与 BSA 相比,脱脂乳作为封闭剂会使捕获纳米抗体的性能严重降低一个数量级。这项工作为保留捕获纳米抗体的高有效性提供了指导,从而进一步开发用于各种分析物的双纳米抗体 ELISA。
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