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Definitions

• This invention relates to the field of immunological assays for determining the presence and/or quantifying the amount of 5-fluoro-uracil [5-FU] in human biological samples in order to rapidly determine optimal drug concentrations during chemotherapy.
• Cancer is a term used to describe a group of malignancies that all share the common trait of developing when cells in a part of the body begin to grow out of control. Most cancers form as tumors, but can also manifest in the blood and circulate through other tissues where they grow. Cancer malignancies are most commonly treated with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, and/or radiation therapy. The type of treatment used to treat a specific cancer depends upon several factors including the type of cancer malignancy and the stage during which it was diagnosed.
• 5-FU is one of the more commonly used cytotoxic agents that are used for the treatment of Breast and Colorectal cancer.
• This chemotherapeutic agent has the formula:
• This compound has been associated with debilitating side effects such as bone marrow density loss, mucositis, nausea and vomiting.
• debilitating side effects such as bone marrow density loss, mucositis, nausea and vomiting.
• 5-FU can be administered in its pro-drug form as tegafur which has the structure: Tegafur, when administered to a patient, is generally absorbed and metabolized into 5-FU by the patient at different rates.
• the immunoassay be able to distinguish between tegafur, the inactive substance, and 5-FU, the active substance, into which tegafur metabolizes.
• the problem with antibodies to 5-FU is that they could be cross-reactive with tegafur making these immunoassays not useful.
• a new class of antibodies have been produced which are substantially selectively reactive to 5-FU so as to bind to 5-FU without any substantial cross reactivity to tegafur, as well as, to other interfering pyrimidine bases, uracil and cytosine.
• selectively reactive it is meant that this antibody reacts with the 5-FU molecule and does not substantially react with the other interfering pyrimidine bases such as analogues of 5-FU, the most important blocking pyrimidine base being tegafur.
• a new class of antibodies which substantially selectively reacts with 5-FU and does not substantially react or cross react with tegafur, as well as other interfering pyrimidine bases such as uracil, and cytosine. It has been discovered that through the use of the 3-substituted 5-FU derivative of formula II-A as an immunogen, this new class of antibodies of this invention are provided. It is through the use of these antibodies that an immunoassay, including reagents and kits for such immunoassay for detecting and/or quantifying 5-FU in blood, plasma or other body fluid samples has been developed.
• the presence and amount of 5-FU in body fluid samples can be detected and/or quantified.
• a patient being treated with 5-FU can be monitored during therapy and his treatment adjusted in accordance with said monitoring.
• the reagents utilized in the immunoassay of this invention are conjugates of a carrier, preferably containing polyamine functional groups, with the 1-substituted 5-FU compound of formula II-B:
• the assay utilizes any conventional measuring means for detecting and measuring the amount of said conjugate which is bound or unbound to the antibody. Through the use of said means, the amount of the bound or unbound conjugate can be determined.
• the amount of 5-FU in a sample is determined by correlating the measured amount of the bound or unbound conjugate produced by the 5-FU in the sample with values of the bound or unbound conjugate determined from standard or calibration curve samples containing known amounts of 5-FU, which known amounts are in the range expected for the sample to be tested. These studies for producing calibration curves are determined using the same immunoassay procedure as used for the sample.
• the conjugates are prepared from the compound of formula II-B whereas immunogens are prepared from compounds of the formula II-A.
• immunogens are prepared from compounds of the formula II-A.
• the polyamine polymer is linked to the ligand portion which has the formula:
• ligand portions may be linked to one or more active sites on the carrier of the conjugate or polyamine polymer.
• immunogen and “immunogenic” refer to substances capable of eliciting, producing, or generating an immune response in an organism.
• conjugates refers to any substance formed from the joining together of two parts.
• Representative conjugates in accordance with the present invention include those formed by the joining together of a small molecule, such as the compound of formula II-B, and a large molecule, such as a carrier or a polyamine polymer, particularly protein.
• the small molecule may be joined at one or more active sites on the large molecule.
• Haptens are partial or incomplete antigens. They are protein-free substances, mostly low molecular weight substances, which are not capable of stimulating antibody formation, but which do react with antibodies. The latter are formed by coupling a hapten to a high molecular weight immunogenic carrier and then injecting this coupled product, i.e., immunogen, into a human or animal subject.
• the hapten of this invention is 5-FU.
• a “spacing group” or “spacer” refers to a portion of a chemical structure which connects two or more substructures such as haptens, carriers, immunogens, labels, or tracers through a CH 2 or functional linking group. These spacer groups will be enumerated hereinafter in this application.
• the atoms of a spacing group and the atoms of a chain within the spacing group are themselves connected by chemical bonds. Among the preferred spacers are straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated, carbon chains. Theses carbon chains may also include one or more heteroatoms within the chain or at termini of the chains.
• heteroatoms is meant atoms other than carbon which are chosen from the group consisting of oxygen, nitrogen and sulfur. Spacing groups may also include cyclic or aromatic groups as part of the chain or as a substitution on one of the atoms in the chain.
• the number of atoms in the spacing group is determined by counting the atoms other than hydrogen.
• the number of atoms in a chain within a spacing group is determined by counting the number of atoms other than hydrogen along the shortest route between the substructures being connected.
• a functional linking group may be used to activate, e.g., provide an available functional site on, a hapten or spacing group for synthesizing a conjugate of a hapten with a label or carrier or polyamine polymer.
• an “immunogenic carrier,” as the terms are used herein, is an immunogenic substance, commonly a protein, that can join with a hapten, in this case 5-FU or the 5-FU derivatives of formula II-A described, thereby enabling these hapten derivatives to induce an immune response and elicit the production of antibodies that can bind specifically with these haptens.
• the immunogenic carriers and the linking groups will be enumerated hereinafter in this application.
• the immunogenic carrier substances are included proteins, glycoproteins, complex polyamino-polysaccharides, particles, and nucleic acids that are recognized as foreign and thereby elicit an immunologic response from the host.
• the polyamino-polysaccharides may be prepared from polysaccharides using any of the conventional means known for this preparation.
• poly(amino acid) immunogenic carrier examples include albumins, serum proteins, lipoproteins, etc.
• Illustrative proteins include bovine serum albumin (BSA), keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH), egg ovalbumin, bovine thyroglobulin (BTG) etc.
• BSA bovine serum albumin
• KLH keyhole limpet hemocyanin
• BGT bovine thyroglobulin
• synthetic poly(amino acids) may be utilized.
• Immunogenic carriers can also include poly amino-polysaccharides, which are a high molecular weight polymer built up by repeated condensations of monosaccharides.
• polysaccharides are starches, glycogen, cellulose, carbohydrate gums such as gum arabic, agar, and so forth.
• the polysaccharides also contain polyamino acid residues and/or lipid residues.
• the immunogenic carrier can also be a poly(nucleic acid) either alone or conjugated to one of the above mentioned poly(amino acids) or polysaccharides.
• the immunogenic carrier can also include solid particles.
• the particles are generally at least about 0.02 microns (>m) and not more than about 100 ⁇ m, and usually about 0.05 ⁇ m to 10 ⁇ m in diameter.
• the particle can be organic or inorganic, swellable or non-swellable, porous or non-porous, optimally of a density approximating water, generally from about 0.7 to 1.5 g/mL, and composed of material that can be transparent, partially transparent, or opaque.
• the particles can be biological materials such as cells and microorganisms, including non-limiting examples such as erythrocytes, leukocytes, lymphocytes, hybridomas, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus, E. coli, and viruses.
• the particles can also be comprised of organic and inorganic polymers, liposomes, latex, phospholipid vesicles, or lipoproteins.
• Poly(amino acid) or “polypeptide” is a polyamide formed from amino acids.
• Poly(amino acids) will generally range from about 2,000 molecular weight, having no upper molecular weight limit, normally being less than 10,000,000 and usually not more than about 600,000 daltons. There will usually be different ranges, depending on whether an immunogenic carrier or an enzyme is involved.
• a “peptide” is any compound formed by the linkage of two or more amino acids by amide (peptide) bonds, usually a polymer of ⁇ -amino acids in which the ⁇ -amino group of each amino acid residue (except the NH 2 terminus) is linked to the ⁇ -carboxyl group of the next residue in a linear chain.
• the terms peptide, polypeptide and poly(amino acid) are used synonymously herein to refer to this class of compounds without restriction as to size. The largest members of this class are referred to as proteins.
• a “label,” “detector molecule,” or “tracer” is any molecule which produces, or can be induced to produce, a detectable signal.
• the label can be conjugated to an analyte, immunogen, antibody, or to another molecule such as a receptor or a molecule that can bind to a receptor such as a ligand, particularly a hapten.
• Non-limiting examples of labels include radioactive isotopes, enzymes, enzyme fragments, enzyme substrates, enzyme inhibitors, coenzymes, catalysts, fluorophores, dyes, chemiluminescers, luminescers, or sensitizers; a non-magnetic or magnetic particle, a solid support, a liposome, a ligand, or a receptor.
• antibody refers to a specific protein binding partner for an antigen and is any substance, or group of substances, which has a specific binding affinity for an antigen to the exclusion of other substances.
• the generic term antibody subsumes polyclonal antibodies, monoclonal antibodies and antibody fragments.
• derivative refers to a chemical compound or molecule made from a parent compound by one or more chemical reactions.
• carrier for forming the conjugate of formula II-B refers to solid particles and/or polymeric polymers such as immunogenic polymers such as those mentioned above. Where the carrier is a solid particle, the solid particle may be bound, coated with or otherwise attached to a polyamine polymer to provide one or more reactive sites for bonding to the terminal functional group X in the compounds of the formula II-B.
• reagent kit refers to an assembly of materials that are used in performing an assay.
• the reagents can be provided in packaged combination in the same or in separate containers, depending on their cross-reactivities and stabilities, and in liquid or in lyophilized form.
• the amounts and proportions of reagents provided in the kit can be selected so as to provide optimum results for a particular application.
• a reagent kit embodying features of the present invention comprises antibodies specific for 5-FU.
• the kit may further comprise ligands of the analyte and calibration and control materials.
• the reagents may remain in liquid form or may be lyophilized.
• calibration and control materials refers to any standard or reference material containing a known amount of a drug to be measured.
• concentration of drug is calculated by comparing the results obtained for the unknown specimen with the results obtained for the standard. This is commonly done by constructing a calibration curve.
• biological sample includes, but is not limited to, any quantity of a substance from a living thing or formerly living thing.
• living things include, but are not limited to, humans, mice, monkeys, rats, rabbits, horses, and other animals.
• substances include, but are not limited to, blood, serum, plasma, urine, cells, organs, tissues, bone, bone marrow, lymph, lymph nodes, synovial tissue, chondrocytes, synovial macrophages, endothelial cells, and skin.
• a conjugate of 5-FU is constructed to compete with the 5-FU in the sample for binding sites on the antibodies of this invention.
• the immunogen for producing the antibodies of this invention is the 3-substituted 5-FU derivatives of the compounds of formula III-A and the reagent is the i-substituted 5-FU derivatives of formula III-B.
• the linker spacer constitutes the —CH 2 —(Y) p —X′— portion of this molecule.
• the linker X′ and the spacer —CH 2 —(Y) p — are conventional in preparing conjugates and immunogens.
• any of the conventional spacer-linking groups utilized to prepare conjugates and immunogens for immunoassays can be utilized in the compounds of formula III-A and III-B.
• Such conventional linkers and spacers are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,501,987 and U.S. Pat. No. 5,101,015.
• Particularly preferred spacing groups are groups such as alkylene containing from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, wherein n and o are integers from 0 to 6, and m is an integer from 1 to 6 with alkylene being the especially preferred spacing group.
• X′ is —CH 2 — or a functional group linking the spacer, preferably to an amine group on the polymer or the carrier.
• the group X′ is the result of the terminal functional group X in the compounds of Formula II-A and II-B which is capable of binding to the amino group in the polyamine polymer used as either the carrier or the immunogen.
• Any terminal functional group capable of reacting with an amine can be utilized as the functional group X in the compounds of formula II-A and II-B.
• These terminal functional groups preferably included within X are: wherein R 3 is hydrogen or taken together with its attached oxygen atom forms a reactive ester and R 4 is oxygen or sulfur.
• the radical —N ⁇ C ⁇ R 4 can be an isocyanate or as isothiocyanate.
• the active esters formed by OR 3 include imidoester, such as N-hydroxysuccinamide, 1-hydroxy benzotriazole and p-nitrophenyl ester. However any active ester which can react with an amine group can be used.
• the carboxylic group and the active esters are coupled to the carrier or immunogenic polymer by conventional means.
• the amine group on the polyamine polymer such as a protein, produces an amide group which connects the spacer to the polymer, immunogens or carrier and/or conjugates of this invention.
• the chemical bonds between the carboxyl group-containing 5-FU hapten and the amino groups on the polyamine polymer on the carrier or the immunogen can be established using a variety of methods known to one skilled in the art. It is frequently preferable to form amide bonds.
• Amide bonds are formed by first activating the carboxylic acid moiety of the 5-FU hapten in the compounds of formula II-A and II-B by reacting the carboxyl group with a leaving group reagent (e.g., N-hydroxysuccinimide, i-hydroxybenzotriazole, p-nitrophenol and the like).
• An activating reagent such as dicyclohexylcarbodiimide, diisopropylcarbodiimide and the like can be used.
• the activated form of the carboxyl group in the 5-FU hapten of formula II-A or II-B is then reacted with a buffered solution containing the protein carrier.
• the 5-FU derivative of formula II-A or II-B contains a primary or secondary amino group as well as the carboxyl group
• an amine protecting group during the activation and coupling reactions to prevent the conjugates from reacting with themselves.
• the amines on the conjugate are protected by forming the corresponding N-trifluoroacetamide, N-tertbutyloxycarbonyl urethane (N-t-BOC urethane), N-carbobenzyloxy urethane or similar structure.
• the amine protecting group can be removed using reagents that do not otherwise alter the structure of the immunogen or conjugate.
• Such reagents and methods include weak or strong aqueous or anhydrous acids, weak or strong aqueous or anhydrous bases, hydride-containing reagents such as sodium borohydride or sodium cyanoborohydride and catalytic hydrogenation.
• hydride-containing reagents such as sodium borohydride or sodium cyanoborohydride and catalytic hydrogenation.
• Various methods of conjugating haptens and carriers are also disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 3,996,344 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,016,146, which are herein incorporated by reference.
• X is a terminal isocyanate or thioisocyanate radical in the compound of formula II-A or II-B
• these radicals when reacted with the free amine of a polyamine polymer produce the conjugate of formula II-B or the immunogen where X′ is where R 4 is as above, which functionally connects with the amino group on the polyamine carrier or the immunogenic polypeptide.
• X in the compounds of formula II-A and II-B, is an aldehyde group these compounds may be connected to the amine group of the polyamine polypeptide or carrier through an amine linkage by reductive amination. Any conventional method of condensing an aldehyde with an amine such as through reductive amination can be used to form this linkage.
• X′ in the ligand portions of formula III-A and III-B is —CH 2 —.
• the 1-nitrogen atoms in the compound of formula I can be connected to form the compound of formula II-B by reacting 5-FU with a halide of the formula: R 1 —CH 2 —(Y) P —X V-A
• R 1 is chloro or bromo and Y, p and X are as above, to produce the compound of the formula:
• the compound of formula I is reacted at its 1-ring nitrogen atom with the halide of formula V-A to form the compounds of formula II-B by any conventional means of condensing a halide with an amine group.
• This condensation reaction is carried out in the presence of a base.
• the ring nitrogen atom at the 1-position of the compound of formula I is more reactive than the ring nitrogen atom at the 3-position. Therefore the ring nitrogen atom at the 1-position will preferably condense with the halide.
• the compound of formula V-A contains any reactive amino or other functional substituents, these substituents can be reacted with conventional protecting groups prior to the reaction of 5-FU with a compound of V-A. After the compound of formula VI-A is produced, these protecting groups can be removed by procedures well known in the art for removing such protecting groups while retaining the amine in the compound of formula II-B.
• the 3-substituted 5-FU of formula II-A can be prepared from 5-FU by first converting 5-FU into the dichloro compound of the formula:
• the compound of formula VII is converted to the compound of the formula: which enolizes into the compound of formula: This conversion is carried out by treating the compound of formula VII with sodium hydroxide in an aqueous medium at a temperature of from 35° C. to 50° C.
• the compound of formula VIII-B can be converted to the compound of the formula:
• the compound of formula VIII-B is reacted with benzyl alcohol in an organic solvent in the presence of solid sodium hydroxide.
• the compound of formula IX is converted to the compound of formula II-A by reacting the compound of formula IX with the halide of formula V-A, in the manner described hereinbefore in connection with the condensation of compound of formula I with the halide of formula V-A.
• the compound of formula II-A can be converted into the immunogens and the compound of formula II-B with the conjugate carrier reagent of this invention by reacting these compounds with a polyamine, polypeptide or a carrier.
• the same polypeptide can be utilized as the carrier in the compound of formula II-B and as the immunogenic polymer in the immunogen of formula II-A of this invention provided that polyamine or polypeptide is immunologically active.
• these polymers need not produce an immunological response as needed for the immunogens.
• the various functional groups represented by X in the compounds of formula II-A and II-B can be conjugated to the polymeric material by conventional means of attaching a functional group to an amine group contained within the polymer.
• X is a carboxylic acid group or active esters thereof.
• the present invention also relates to novel antibodies including monoclonal antibodies to 5-FU produced by utilizing the aforementioned immunogens.
• these antibodies produced in accordance with this invention are selectively reactive with 5-FU and do not react with tegafur or other pyrimidine containing compounds which would interfere with immunoassays for 5-FU.
• the present invention relates to novel antibodies and monoclonal antibodies to 5-FU.
• the antisera of the invention can be conveniently produced by immunizing host animals with the immunogens this invention. Suitable host animals include rodents, such as, for example, mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and the like, or higher mammals such as goats, sheep, horses and the like. Initial doses, bleedings and booster shots can be given according to accepted protocols for eliciting immune responses in animals, e.g., in a preferred embodiment mice received an initial dose of 100 ug immunogen/mouse, i.p. and two or more subsequent booster shots of 100 ug immunogen/mouse over a six month period. Through periodic bleeding, the blood samples of the immunized mice were observed to develop an immune response against 5-FU binding utilizing conventional immunoassays. These methods provide a convenient way to screen for hosts which are producing antisera having the desired activity.
• Monoclonal antibodies are produced conveniently by immunizing Balb/c mice according to the above schedule followed by injecting the mice with 100 ug immunogen i.p. or i.v. on three successive days starting three days prior to the cell fusion. Other protocols well known in the antibody art may of course be utilized as well. The complete immunization protocol detailed herein provided an optimum protocol for serum antibody response for the antibody to 5-FU.
• B lymphocytes obtained from the spleen, peripheral blood, lymph nodes or other tissue of the host may be used as the monoclonal antibody producing cell. Most preferred are B lymphocytes obtained from the spleen.
• Hybridomas capable of generating the desired monoclonal antibodies of the invention are obtained by fusing such B lymphocytes with an immortal cell line, which is a cell line that which imparts long term tissue culture stability on the hybrid cell.
• the immortal cell may be a lymphoblastoid cell or a plasmacytoma cell such as a myeloma cell, itself an antibody producing cell but also malignant.
• Murine hybridomas which produce 5-FU monoclonal antibodies are formed by the fusion of mouse myeloma cells and spleen cells from mice immunized against 5-FU-protein conjugates.
• Chimeric and humanized monoclonal antibodies can be produced by cloning the antibody expressing genes from the hybridoma cells and employing recombinant DNA methods now well known in the art to either join the subsequence of the mouse variable region to human constant regions or to combine human framework regions with complementary determining regions (CDR's) from a donor mouse or rat immunoglobulin.
• CDR's complementary determining regions
• Polypeptide fragments comprising only a portion of the primary antibody structure may be produced, which fragments possess one or more immunoglobulin activities. These polypeptide fragments may be produced by proteolytic cleavage of intact antibodies by methods well known in the art, or by inserting stop codons at the desired locations in expression vectors containing the antibody genes using site-directed mutageneses to produce Fab fragments or (Fab′) 2 fragments. Single chain antibodies may be produced by joining VL and VH regions with a DNA linker (see Huston et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 85:5879-5883 (1988) and Bird et al., Science, 242:423-426 (1988))
• the antibodies of this invention are selective for 5-FU and do not have any substantial cross-reactivity with such pyrimidine bases such as uracil, cytosine, tegafur etc. By having no substantial cross-reactivity it is meant that the antibodies of this invention have a cross reactivity relative to 5-FU with these metabolites of not greater than 12% preferably less than 5%.
• the conjugated and the antibodies generated from the immunogens of these compounds of formula II-A can be utilized as reagents for the determination of 5-FU in patient samples. This determination is performed by means of an immunoassay. Any immunoassay in which the reagent conjugates formed from the compounds of formula II-B compete with the 5-FU in the sample for binding sites on the antibodies generated in accordance with this invention can be utilized to determine the presence of 5-FU in a patient sample.
• the manner for conducting such an assay for 5-FU in a sample suspected of containing 5-FU comprises combining an (a) aqueous medium sample, (b) an antibody to 5-FU generated in accordance with this invention and (c) the conjugates formed from the compounds of formula II-B.
• the amount of 5-FU in the sample can be determined by measuring the inhibition of the binding to the specific antibody of a known amount of the conjugate added to the mixture of the sample and antibody. The result of the inhibition of such binding of the known amount of conjugates by the unknown sample is compared to the results obtained in the same assay by utilizing known standard solutions of 5-FU.
• the sample, the conjugates formed from the compounds of formula II-B and the antibody may be added in any order.
• Various means can be utilized to measure the amount of conjugate formed from the compounds of formula II-B bound to the antibody.
• One method is where binding of the conjugates to the antibody causes a decrease in the rate of rotation of a fluorophore conjugate.
• the amount of decrease in the rate of rotation of a fluorophore conjugate in the liquid mixture can be detected by the fluorescent polarization technique such as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,269,511 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,420,568.
• the antibody can be coated or absorbed on nanoparticles so that when these particles react with the 5-FU conjugates formed from the compounds of formula II-B, these nanoparticles form an aggregate.
• the antibody coated or absorbed nanoparticles react with the 5-FU in the sample, the 5-FU from the sample bound to these nanoparticles does not cause aggregation of the antibody nanoparticles.
• the amount of aggregation or agglutination can be measured in the assay mixture by absorbance.
• these assays can be carried out by having either the antibody or the 5-FU conjugates attached to a solid support such as a microtiter plate or any other conventional solid support including solid particles. Attaching antibodies and proteins to such solid particles is well known in the art. Any conventional method can be utilized for carrying out such attachments.
• labels may be placed upon the antibodies, conjugates or solid particles, such as radioactive labels or enzyme labels, as aids in detecting the amount of the conjugates formed from the compounds of formula II-B which is bound or unbound with the antibody.
• suitable labels include chromophores, fluorophores, etc.
• assay components of the present invention can be provided in a kit, a packaged combination with predetermined amounts of new reagents employed in assaying for 5-FU.
• reagents include the antibody of this invention, as well as, the conjugates formed from the compounds of formula II-B.
• additives such as ancillary reagents may be included, for example, stabilizers, buffers and the like.
• ancillary reagents may be included, for example, stabilizers, buffers and the like.
• the relative amounts of the various reagents may vary widely to provide for concentrations in solution of the reagents which substantially optimize the sensitivity of the assay.
• Reagents can be provided in solution or as a dry powder, usually lyophilized, including excipients which on dissolution will provide for a reagent solution having the appropriate concentrations for performing the assay.
• mice Ten Female BALB/c mice were immunized i.p. with 100 ⁇ g/mouse of 5-FU-KLH prepared in example 5 or with 5-FU-BTG prepared in example 6, emulsified in Complete Freund's Adjuvant. Mice were boosted once four weeks after the initial injection with 100 ⁇ g /mouse of the same immunogens emulsified in Incomplete Freund's Adjuvant. Ten days after the boost test bleeds from each mouse were obtained by orbital bleed. The anti-serum from these test bleeds contained 5-FU antibodies evaluated in Examples 11, 12, 13, and 14.
• the ELISA method for measuring 5-FU concentrations was performed in polystyrene microtiter plates (Nunc MaxiSorp C8 or F8 Immunomodules) optimized for protein binding and containing 96 wells per plate.
• the wells were washed with 0.00M sodium bicarbonate, pH 9.6 and then were blocked with 400 ⁇ L of 5% sucrose, 0.2% sodium caseinate solution for 30 minutes at room temperature. After removal of the post-coat solution the plates were dried at 37° C. overnight.
• the ELISA method for measuring 5-FU concentrations was performed in polystyrene microtiter plates (Nunc MaxiSorp C8 or F8 Immunomodules) optimized for protein binding and containing 96 wells per plate.
• the wells were washed with 0.00M sodium bicarbonate, pH 9.6 and then were blocked with 400 ⁇ L of 5% sucrose, 0.2% sodium caseinate solution for 30 minutes at room temperature. After removal of the post-coat solution the plates were dried at 37° C. overnight.
• the ELISA method for screening 5-FU antibodies was performed with the microtiter plates that were sensitized with 5-FU-BSA as described in examples 7 and 8.
• the antibody screening assay was performed by diluting the antisera containing 5-FU antibodies to 1:100, 1:1,000, 1:10,000 and 1:100,000 in phosphate buffered saline containing 0.1% BSA and 0.01% thimerosal.
• the wells of the plates were washed three times with 0.02 M TRIS, 0.9% NaCl, 0.5% Tween-80 and 0.001% Thimerosal, pH 7.8 to remove any unbound antibody.
• the ELISA method for measuring 5-FU concentrations was performed with the microtiter plates that were sensitized with 5-FU-BSA described in example 7.
• 5-FU, uracil, thymine, cytosine and Tegafur were diluted 10 fold in PBS over a concentration range of 0.01 to 10,000 ng/mL.
• the assay was performed by incubating 50 ⁇ L of the analytes to be measured with 50 ⁇ L of antibody (produced in example 9 with immunogen of example 5) diluted to a titer determined in example 12. During the 10 minute incubation (R.T., with shaking) there is a competition of antibody binding for the 5-FU conjugate in the well and the analyte in solution.
• the amount of antibody in a well was proportional to the absorbance measured and inversely proportional to the amount of 5-FU in the sample.
• the absorbance of the color in the wells containing analyte was compared to that with no analyte and a standard curve was generated.
• the IC 50 value for a given analyte was defined as the concentration of analyte that is required to inhibit 50% of the absorbance for the wells containing no analyte.
• the cross-reactivity of a given analyte was calculated as the ratio of the IC 50 for 5-FU to the IC 50 for uracil, thymine, cytosine and Tegafur expressed as a percent.
• the ELISA method for measuring 5-FU concentrations was performed with the microtiter plates that were sensitized with 5-FU-BSA described in example 6.
• 5-FU, uracil, thymine, cytosine and Tegafur were diluted lo fold in PBS over a concentration range of 0.01 to 10,000 ng/mL.
• the assay was performed by incubating 50 ⁇ L of the analytes to be measured with 50 ⁇ L of antibody (produced in example 6) diluted to a titer determined in example 12. During the 10 minute incubation (R.T., with shaking) there is a competition of antibody binding for the 5-FU conjugate in the well and the analyte in solution.
• the amount of antibody in a well was proportional to the absorbance measured and inversely proportional to the amount of 5-FU in the sample.
• the absorbance of the color in the wells containing analyte was compared to that with no analyte and a standard curve was generated.
• the IC50 value for a given analyte was defined as the concentration of analyte that is required to inhibit 50% of the absorbance for the wells containing no analyte.
• the cross-reactivity of a given analyte was calculated as the ratio of the IC50 for 5-FU to the IC50 for uracil, thymine, cytosine and Tegafur expressed as a percent.
• results in this table demonstrate the importance of forming the immunogen from the compound of formula II-A and the reagent from the compound of formula II-B. From these results it can be seen that it is when the immunogen is formed from the compound of formula II-A, rather than II-B, an antibody is produced which does not cross-react with tegafur. It is through the antibody provided from the immunogen of the compound of the formula II-A and the reagent carrier provided from the compound of II-B, that produces an accurate immunoassay for 5-FU to monitor patients being treated with 5-FU.

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