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An improved ELISA for the determination of sialyl Lewisx structures on purified glycoconjugates

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The membrane carbohydrate antigen, sialyl Lewis x (sLex), is involved in cellular adhesive interactions in many diseases, such as cancer, inflammation and thrombosis. This antigen is also found on soluble macromolecules, such as serum glycoproteins, but the precise role of soluble sLex in modifying disease processes, or reflecting the pathological changes is still unclear. Although methods were previously reported for the measurement of soluble sLex, many of these were not well characterised, measurements were mainly made on mixtures of molecules, and the anti-sLex antibodies were used at concentrations that made the assay expensive. In this study an ELISA has been devised that detects sLex in purified soluble glycoconjugates using the anti-sLex antibody, CSLEX 1. Commercially-available haptoglobin (Hp) and synthetic complexes of Lewis antigens with polyacrylamide were used as model substances in developing the procedure. Key steps were washing the antibody/antigen complex with ten times diluted salt solution to prevent dissociation of the complex and the use of bovine serum albumin for blocking non-specific interactions. The assay was shown to be very specific, its precision was in the range 6–12%, and it could detect less than a pmol of sLex. It could also distinguish between different densities of sLex on the same amount of glycoconjugate. Determination of sLex in Hp isolated from small groups of healthy individuals, cancer patients, and rheumatoid arthritis sufferers suggested that the antigen expression is increased in disease. This method, which is an improvement on those previously described, will be useful for determining sLex in many different types of soluble glycoconjugate, and used in combination with synthetic carbohydrate polyacrylamide complexes, will help to standardize measurements of soluble sLex in the future.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Wroclaw University of Medicine, PL-50-345, Wroclaw, Poland

    I. Katnik

  2. Department of Clinical Biochemistry, The Medical School, NE2 4HH, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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Katnik, I., Goodarzi, M.T. & Turner, G.A. An improved ELISA for the determination of sialyl Lewisx structures on purified glycoconjugates. Glycoconjugate J 13, 1043–1047 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01053200

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