title: Enzyme inhibition assay for pyruvate dehydrogenase complex: clinical utility for the diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis.
abstract: Primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) is usually diagnosed by the presence of characteristic histopathological features of the liver and/or antimitochondrial antibodies (AMA) in the serum traditionally detected by immunofluorescence. Recently, new and more accurate serological assays for the detection of AMA, such as enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), immunoblotting, and enzyme inhibition assay, have been developed. Of these, the enzyme inhibition assay for the detection of anti- pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDC) antibodies offers certain advantages such as objectivity, rapidity, simplicity, and low cost. Since this assay has almost 100% specificity, it may have particular applicability in screening the at-risk segment of the population in developing countries. Moreover, this assay could be also used for monitoring the disease course in PBC. Almost all sera of PBC-suspected patients can be confirmed for PBC or non-PBC by the combination results of immunoblotting and enzyme inhibition assay without histopathological examination. For the development of a "complete" or "gold standard" diagnostic assay for PBC, similar assays of the enzyme inhibition for anti-2-oxoglutarate dehydrogenase complex (OGDC) and anti-branched chain oxo-acid dehydrogenase complex (BCOADC) antibodies will be needed in future.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan. omagari@net.nagasaki-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Katsuhisa
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Omagari
authors.forename: Hiroaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hazama
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kohno
mesh_terms: D001681:Biological Assay / Q000379:methods*; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008105:Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000201:enzymology; D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000378:metabolism*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012698:Serologic Tests
chemical_list: D011768:Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex