Figure 7. Sandwich ELISA assay with chemiluminescence is as sensitive as the ECL assay.
A. Example of a representative experiment in which differentiated SiMa cells were treated with BoNT/A at concentrations from 0.03 to 25 pM for 24 h followed by 48 h incubation, and the lysates were evaluated in the optimized chemiluminescence read-out. The results obtained were similar to the ECL read-out (EC50∼0.5 to 2 pM), excellent signal to background, and reproducibility of the replicates. B. Summary of optimized parameters for the chemiluminescence CBPA. Seven parameters comprising cell culture and ELISA read-out were specifically optimized for this assay by testing several conditions for each parameter.