title: Quantitation of tissue transglutaminase by a sandwich ELISA system.
abstract: A sandwich ELISA system has been developed to quantitate transglutaminase in human cell extracts. It utilizes affinity-purified rabbit anti-human transglutaminase as the capture antibody and a mouse monoclonal anti-transglutaminase (Birckbichler et al., 1985) as the indicator antibody (together with peroxidase-labeled anti-mouse immunoglobulin). The sensitivity of the assay was less than 1.0 ng/mg cellular protein. Significantly higher concentrations of the enzyme were found in resting versus proliferating or transformed fibroblasts in good agreement with previous activity measurements. The levels of transglutaminase in normal T and B lymphocytes, malignant lymphoid cells and monocytes were also determined.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D006801:Humans; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D051379:Mice; D009000:Monocytes / Q000201:enzymology; D011503:Transglutaminases / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D011503:Transglutaminases