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Clinical Chemistry 30: 1494-1498, 1984;
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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 30, 1494-1498, Copyright © 1984 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Affinity-column-mediated immunoenzymometric assays: influence of affinity-column ligand and valency of antibody-enzyme conjugates

JW Freytag, HP Lau and JJ Wadsley

We describe an affinity-column-mediated, enzyme-linked immunometric assay that is highly sensitive and adaptable to automation. Digoxin is the model test analyte. A comparison of digoxin with its analog, ouabain, for use as the immobilized ligand on the affinity column showed ouabain to be superior. We also report the effect of column elution rate. Antibody-enzyme conjugates prepared with the monovalent Fab'-fragment and the divalent F(ab')2-fragment coupled to beta- galactosidase are compared in terms of their overall assay performance. Although the monovalent Fab'--beta-galactosidase conjugate yields a more sensitive assay and dose-response curves that are linear over a wider range, the divalent F(ab')2--beta-galactosidase conjugate provides an assay with adequate sensitivity and extremely good precision, and is generally easier to synthesize reproducibly. This fully automated, rapid, and precise assay for digoxin is compatible with the Du Pont aca discrete clinical analyzer.




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