title: Identification of antigenic differences of recombinant and pituitary bovine growth hormone using monoclonal antibodies.
abstract: For characterization and determination of recombinant bovine GH (rbGH) eight monoclonal antibodies (MAb) were produced against rbGH from Monsanto. The various MAb showed different affinities to rbGH, pituitary bovine GH (pbGH), and pituitary ovine GH (poGH). With epitope analysis several MAb were shown to recognize different epitopes of rbGH. The MAb MUC-rbGH-3A11 and MUC-rbGH-1E5 were used to develop a Sandwich ELISA. By checking the specificity of the assay no cross reactivity was found with pituitary porcine GH, pituitary human GH, bovine or ovine prolactin and little cross reactivity with poGH could be found. The Sandwich ELISA detected various rbGH (Monsanto, Elanco, Cyanamid) with different N-terminal amino acids and discriminated between rbGH and pituitary bovine GH by an affinity factor of 2.0. The detection level was 2 ng rbGH per ml PBS buffer. The recovery was about 86% in bovine serum. It might therefore be possible to detect rbGH-treated cows using a Sandwich ELISA, but this would need a field study.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Physiologie, Physiologische Chemie und Ernährungsphysiologie, Tierärztliche Fakultät, Universität München, Federal Republic of Germany.
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Erhard
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kellner
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schmidhuber
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schams
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Lösch
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000915:Antibody Affinity; D002417:Cattle; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012756:Sheep
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000939:Epitopes; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D013006:Growth Hormone