title: An ELISA for the H-subunit of human ferritin which employs a combination of rabbit poly- and mice monoclonal antibodies and an enzyme labeled anti-mouse-IgG.
abstract: We describe a sensitive ELISA for measuring the H-type subunit of human ferritin. A high detection sensitivity was attained by the use of antibodies from different species and an enzyme-conjugated secondary antibody. It consisted of a sandwich assay using a solid phase coated with a rabbit polyclonal antibody for human ferritin from term placenta and a soluble monoclonal antibody for human H-ferritin, followed by a secondary anti-mouse immunoglobulin (Ig)G conjugated to beta-galactosidase. The assay was calibrated with purified recombinant human H-ferritin from E. coli. The colorigenic chlorophenol red beta-D-galactopyranoside and the fluorogenic 4-methyl-umbelliferyl-beta-D-galactopyranoside substrates were used with similar outcome. The described method permits the measurement of human H-ferritin at a concentration ranging from 0.1 to 100 micrograms/l (or 20-20,000 pg per 200 microliters sample) and is accurate at a concentration as low as 0.3 microgram/l. The coefficient of variation of the assay was 6.05-10.3% and the recovery of H-ferritin added to cell lysates was 105.8 +/- 7.52%. Depending on the H-ferritin content of the cell line tested, only 600 to 60,000 cells of different human cell lines were needed to measure their H-ferritin content.
authors.affiliation: Department of Human Nutrition and Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Vaisman
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Santambrogio
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Arosio
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fibach
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Konijn
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / Q000379:methods*; D005293:Ferritins / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D005293:Ferritins