GB2071318A - Reagent and Method for the Determination of Human-Muscle Aldolase - Google Patents

Reagent and Method for the Determination of Human-Muscle Aldolase Download PDF

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GB2071318A
GB2071318A GB8107059A GB8107059A GB2071318A GB 2071318 A GB2071318 A GB 2071318A GB 8107059 A GB8107059 A GB 8107059A GB 8107059 A GB8107059 A GB 8107059A GB 2071318 A GB2071318 A GB 2071318A
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A reagent for the determination of human-muscle type aldolase comprises radioisotope-labelled muscle aldolase antibody and a determination process comprises the following steps: (a) contacting a sample with insolubilized muscle aldolase antibody, followed by separation of the solid phase; (b) contacting the solid phase with radioisotope-labelled muscle type aldolase antibody, followed by separation of the solid phase; and (c) determining the radioactivity of the solid phase. l

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SPECIFICATION Reagent and Method for the Determination of Human-muscle Aldolase This invention relates to reagents and methods for the determination of the human-muscle aldolase.
Aldolase is a general term for the enzymes which catalyze the aldol condensation between dihydroxyacetone phosphate and a variety of aldehydes, as well as catalyzing the reverse process. This invention is concerned with fructose diphosphate aldolase (E.C. 4. 1. 2. 13, fructose 1 ,6-phosphate-D-glycelaldehyde-3-phosphate lyase) which reversibly decomposes fructose-i ,6diphosphate into dihydroxyacetone phosphate and D-glyceladehyde-3-phosphate. This enzyme occupies the main course of the glycolysis system, and in particular is distributed mainly in muscle, thereby contributing importantly to energy metabolism.
Mammal aldolase comprises three types of isoenzymes, that is, the muscle type (A type), the liver type (B type) and the brain type (C type). It is known that the ratio of these isoenzymes varies in accordance with the metamorphosis of the living body, such as differentiation of the fetal liver in rat, canceration or organism in human, rat, and the like.
There have been conventionally known two methods for determining the human-muscle aldolase, one of which is the electrophoretic method, and the other is a method which comprises measuring the decomposition activities of two substrates for aldolase, that is, fructose 1 6-diphosphate (FDP) and fructose-l -phosphate (FIP) [FDP-ALD activity and FIP-ALD activity], thereby determining the activity ratio (FDP/FIP).
These methods, however, involve various problems.
In the electrophoretic method, the problem is that the migration points of the human aldolase isoenzymes are positioned so closely to one another that discrimination is difficult and precise quantitative determination can not be achieved.
In the method of measuring the activity ratio FDP/FIP, operation is particularly complicated for the measurement of the FIP-ALD activity, accompanied by no quantitative determination.
Recently, there has been reported a method for determining aldolase by means of radioimmunoassay through competition (double antibody method). Compared with the aforementioned methods, this method has better sensitivity and quantification. However, this method also has some disadvantage in that there is required a large amount of the second antibody for the separation of B and F. Moreover, the handling procedure itself for the separation is very complicated, taking a long time and requiring much labour. There is further observed some nonspecific reaction.
The present invention provides a radioisotopelabelled muscle aldolase antibody. Such a product can be used in a method of the invention for the determination of the human-muscle aldolase by means of radioimmunoassay using the so-called "Sandwich method" with the aldolase antibody as a reagent.
By this method of the invention, various defects in the methods of prior art can be avoided or diminished. More particularly, the method of the present invention is remarkable in both the sensitivity for the determination and the quantitative effect. Also in comparison with the double-antibody method, the method of the present invention is characterized in that the second antibody is not required; the separation procedure for B and F is simple and convenient; and non-specific reaction is outstandingly low.
According to the Sandwich-method of the present invention, determination of humanmuscle type aldolase is carried out through the following steps: (a) contacting a sample with an insolubilized muscle aldolase antibody, followed by separation of the solid phase; (b) contacting the solid phase with a radioisotope-labelled muscle aldolase antibody, followed by separation of the solid phase; and (c) determining the radioactivity of the solid phase.
The following will illustrate more particularly this method.
In the step (a), an antibodyinsolubilized by combination with a carrier is incubated together with a specimen, such as serum, etc, so that the antigen (human muscle aldolase) in the specimen may react with the insolubilized antibody. After the reaction is over, the reaction solution is removed and the solid phase is washed with buffer solution, distilled water, physiological saline water or the like.
In the step (b), the solid phase obtained in the step (a) is incubated together with a radioisotopelabelled antibody, resulting in that the radioisotope-labelled antibody combines with the antigen previously combined with the insolubilized antibody. After the reaction is over, the reaction solution is removed, and the solid phase is washed with a buffer solution, distilled water, physiological saline water or the like.
In the step (c), the radioactivity of the solid phase obtained in the step (b) is determined using a well-type scintillation counter or the like.
The radioactivity of standard samples of the antigen is previously measured with the determination system, so as to set up a standard curve for the amount of antigen versus the radioactivity. The radioactivity of a sample is measured with the same determination system, and then the amount of antigen in the specimen is determined from the standard curve.
The following description further illustrates the reagent for determination to be used with the present method and the muscle aldolase antibody to be used with the production of the reagent.
A) The Muscle Aldolase Antibody Antiserum is obtained by using the muscle type aldolase of a mammal such as human, rabbit, dog, monkey, etc, to immunize another animal.
The immunized animal is preferably selected from species of birds, because the muscle type aldolases do not show significant immunological distinction between the mammals. Iltustrative of the preferred birds include, for example, fowl, turkey, duck and the like.
In the purification of the resulting antiserum, there can be used a method which comprises adding the inactivated serum of the animal which is the source of the muscle type aldolase, and removing by absorption the other impure antibody; or affinity chromatography using support combined the muscle type aldolase; or the like.
B) Radioisotope-labelled Muscle Aldolase Antibody The labelling of muscle type aldolase antibody by means of radioisotope can be achieved by any conventional methods.
For example, the labelling is carried out by the chloramine-T method using 1251, 13'1, etc, as the radioisotope, or by the like method.
C) The Insolubilized Muscle Aldolase Antibody As a carrier, there is used an insoluble solid which is combinative with the antibody.
Illustrative of such solids include, for example, polystyrene, cellulose, aga rose, glass, bridged dextran, metal, etc. The solid can take any suitable form, such as tube, microtiter plate, powder, sphere, disc, plate, foil, etc.
In the case of a polystyrene microtiter plate, the antibody may combine with the wall surface of the plate; when the antibody is properly diluted with a buffer solution or the like, the diluted solution is then added to the plate, and the whole is finally allowed to stand.
The above description relates to the sandwich method, but the human muscle aldolase can be also determined by immunoradiometric assay using radioisotope-labelled muscle aldolase antibody which is the reagent of the present invention. This method comprises reacting the radioisotope-labelled antibody with a sample (antigen), followed by separation of the radioisotope-label led antibody-antigen reactant (B) frorr. unreacted radioisotope-labelled antibody (F), and determining the radioactivity of either (B) or (F). For the separation of (B) and (F), one can use gel filtration, an absorption by means of insolubilized antigen, etc.
The following experiments and examples will further illustrate this invention.
The figure of the attached drawing shows a standard curve for the human-muscle aldolase obtained by the radioimmunoassay in the following Example 2.
Experiment 1 Human Muscle Aldolase Antibody.
The human-muscle aldolase (1 mg) was dissolved in physiological salt water (0.5 ml), and with the solution was admixed an equal volume of Freund complete adjuvant. The product was immunized by subcutaneous injection in a fowl (White Leghorn) at 4 intervals of one week, so that the injections amounted to five times. One week after the last immunization, the blood was collected from the fowl to obtain the anti-serum.
Sepharose 4B (Trade Mark of Pharmacia Fine Chemicals AB; Agarose) (10 g) which was activated with bromo-cyanide, and the human muscle type aldolase (10 mg), were allowed to stand at 40C overnight in 15 ml 0.1 M sodium carbonate buffer solution (pH 9.0).
The resulting Sepharose 4B gel combined with the human-muscle type aldolase was packed into a column, and washed with 0.05 m trishydrochloric acid buffer solution (pH 8.0) containing 0.5 N sodium chloride. To this column was added the above-mentioned human-muscle aldolase anti-serum, and the anti-serum was eluted with 0.05 M tris-hydrochloric acid buffer solution (pH 8.0) containing 0.5 N sodium chloride. Thereafter, 0.1 M aqueous sodium carbonate solution was added to the column to elute the human-muscle aldolase antibody. The antibody eluate was subjected to dialysis with 0.05 M tris-hydrochloric acid buffer solution (pH 8.0) to obtain 3 mg of the human muscle aldolase antibody.
Experiment 2 Insolubilized Human-muscle Aldolase Antibody Into each of the holes provided on a polystyrene microtiter plate was added 200,ul of solution of the human-muscle aldolase antibody, adjusted to OD28o=0.10, and the plate then allowed to stand overnight at 40C. The solution was removed from the plate. The plate was washed with distilled water, giving the microtiter plate with combined human-muscle type aldolase antibody.
Example 1 '251-labelled Human Muscle Aldolase Antibody Na1251 of 250 iicude (10,t41),0.5 M phosphate buffer (pH 7.4 (12.5 'it), human muscle aldolase antibody (1.85 mg/ml) (10 yI) and Chloramine-T (3 mg/mi) (12.5 yI) were reacted with one another for 20 seconds in a small test tube coated with silicone. After the reaction was over, sodium metabisulphite (6 mg/ml) (25 M1) were added to the mixture, so as to stop the reaction. To the resulting mixture were added potassium iodide (50 mg/ml) (12.5 MI) and 2% egg albumin (250 ,ul) in 0.05 M phosphate buffer. The whole was then subjected to gel-filtration by means of Sephadex G-25 M (Trade Mark Pharmacia Fine Chemicals AB; bridged-dextran), so that the free '251 may be removed. There was thus obtained '251-labelled human muscle aldolase antibody, The specific activity thereof being 11.6 u curie/ug.
Example 2 Radioimmunoassay (Sandwich Method) Into each of the holes which were provided on the microtiter plate combined with human muscle type aldolase antibody, 100 yl of the standard solution of the human muscle aldolase were respectively added. The whole was reacted at 370C for 2 hours. After the reaction was over, the supernatant layer was removed, and the remainder was washed thrice with physiological saline solution. To each of the washed holes was then added 100,us of '251-labelled human muscle type aldolase antibody (about 200,000 cpm).
Reaction was allowed to proceed at room temperature for 1 6 hours. After the reaction was over, the supernatant layer was removed. The remainder was washed thrice with physiological saline solution. After the contained water was thoroughly exhausted, the plate was cut, and the respective hole portions were separated from each other. The individual aliquots were respectively placed in small test tubes.
Radioactivity was counted in a well-type scintilation counter.
As shown in Figure 1, there was obtained a standard curve wherein about 8-1 000 ng/ml were plotted as measurable ranges. In the Figure, the horizontal axis (logarithm) indicates the concentration (ng/ml) of the human muscle aldolase, and the vertical axis indicates the radioactivity (cpm).
Human muscle type aldolases in various human serums were then determined through the above assay system. it was thus observed that the human muscle type aldolase of 25 normal subjects amounts to 165+40 ng/ml, all of which were less than 210 ng/ml. To the contrary, the human muscle type aldolase of 20 cancer patients showed higher values than 210 ng/ml, with two exceptions. The 20 cancer patients comprised 7 heptamae, 8 gastric cancers, 3 large intestine cancers, and 2 pancreatic cancers.

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1. Radioisotope-labelled muscle aldolase antibody.
2. Antibody according to claim 1, wherein the radioisotope is 1251.
3. Antibody according to claim 1, wherein the muscle aldolase antibody is human-muscle type aldolase antibody.
4. A process for the determination of humanmuscle aldolase which comprises the following steps: (a) contacting a sample with an insolubilized muscle aldolase antibody, followed by separation of the, solid phase; (b) contacting the solid phase with radioisotope-labelled muscle aldolase antibody, followed by separation of the solid phase; and (c) determining the radioactivity of the solid phase.
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