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. 1980 Dec;40(6):1027–1031. doi: 10.1128/aem.40.6.1027-1031.1980

Quantitation of aflatoxin B1 and aflatoxin B1 antibody by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent microassay.

J J Pestka, P K Gaur, F S Chu
PMCID: PMC291716  PMID: 7006504

Abstract

A specific microtest plate enzyme immunoassay has been developed for the rapid quantitation of aflatoxin B1 at levels as low as 25 pg per assay. Multiple-site injection of rabbits with an aflatoxin B1 carboxymethyloxime-bovine serum albumin conjugate was used for the production of hyperimmune sera. Dilutions of the purified antibody were air dried onto microplates previously treated with bovine serum albumin and glutaraldehyde and then incubated with an aflatoxin B1 carboxymethyloxime-horseradish peroxidase conjugate. The amount of enzyme bound to antibody was determined by monitoring the change in absorbance at 414 nm after the addition of a substrate solution consisting of hydrogen peroxide and 2,2'-azino-di-3-ethyl-benzthiazoline-6-sulfonate. Antibody titers determined in this manner closely correlated with those determined by radioimmunoassay. Competition assays as performed by incubation of different aflatoxin analogs with the peroxidase conjugate showed that aflatoxins B1 and B2 and aflatoxicol caused the most inhibition of conjugate binding to antibody. Aflatoxins G1 and G2 inhibited the conjugate binding to a lesser degree, whereas aflatoxins M1 and B2a had no effect of the assay.

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