TY - JOUR
T1 - Autodisplay of 60-kDa Ro/SS-A antigen and development of a surface display enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for systemic lupus erythematosus patient sera screening
AU - Petermann, Klaudia
AU - Vordenbäumen, Stefan
AU - Pyun, Jae Chul
AU - Braukmann, Achim
AU - Bleck, Ellen
AU - Schneider, Matthias
AU - Jose, Joachim
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support for this study by the Hiller Stiftung Düsseldorf.
PY - 2010/12
Y1 - 2010/12
N2 - Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a common tool to test human sera on an antibody reaction against a specific antigen. The 60-kDa Ro/SS-A antigen for autoantibodies can be found in sera from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. As in the case of 60-kDa Ro/SS-A, antigens used in ELISAs are recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli and time-consuming purification steps are needed to get the proteins. To avoid these disadvantages, 60-kDa Ro/SS-A was expressed on the surface of E. coli using autodisplay, an efficient surface display system. Cells displaying 60-kDa Ro/SS-A on the surface were applied as an antigen source instead of the purified antigen. In total, 39 patients and 30 control sera were screened on a 60-kDa Ro/SS-A antibody reaction. To eliminate antibodies against native E. coli, human sera were preabsorbed with E. coli cells prior to the assay. The new ELISA protocol (surface display ELISA [SD-ELISA]) using E. coli with autodisplayed 60-kDa Ro/SS-A showed a sensitivity of 86.67% and a specificity of 83.33% by a cutoff value of 0.28. Our results show that autodisplay provides simple, rapid, and cheap access to human antigens for an ELISA to screen human sera against specific antibody reactions.
AB - Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) is a common tool to test human sera on an antibody reaction against a specific antigen. The 60-kDa Ro/SS-A antigen for autoantibodies can be found in sera from systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. As in the case of 60-kDa Ro/SS-A, antigens used in ELISAs are recombinantly expressed in Escherichia coli and time-consuming purification steps are needed to get the proteins. To avoid these disadvantages, 60-kDa Ro/SS-A was expressed on the surface of E. coli using autodisplay, an efficient surface display system. Cells displaying 60-kDa Ro/SS-A on the surface were applied as an antigen source instead of the purified antigen. In total, 39 patients and 30 control sera were screened on a 60-kDa Ro/SS-A antibody reaction. To eliminate antibodies against native E. coli, human sera were preabsorbed with E. coli cells prior to the assay. The new ELISA protocol (surface display ELISA [SD-ELISA]) using E. coli with autodisplayed 60-kDa Ro/SS-A showed a sensitivity of 86.67% and a specificity of 83.33% by a cutoff value of 0.28. Our results show that autodisplay provides simple, rapid, and cheap access to human antigens for an ELISA to screen human sera against specific antibody reactions.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ab.2010.07.030
DO - 10.1016/j.ab.2010.07.030
M3 - Article
C2 - 20692223
AN - SCOPUS:77956876708
SN - 0003-2697
VL - 407
SP - 72
EP - 78
JO - Analytical Biochemistry
JF - Analytical Biochemistry
IS - 1
ER -