Fig. 3.
Inhibition ELISA demonstrated the absence of cross-reactivity between MAb 23C8 and MAb 16F4. Pre-incubation with different concentration of MAb 16F4 did not inhibit HRP-conjugated MAb 23C8 binding to NAP-26695 antigen (A). Similar results were obtained after pre-incubation with MAb 23C8 and HRP-conjugated MAb 16F4 (B). In contrast HRP-conjugated antibody binding was inhibited when the same MAb was used for pre-incubation. Standard curves from representative capture ELISA tests using bacterial derived recombinant NAP-26695 (C) or lambda-NAP from MV-lambda-NAP-infected Vero cells (D) as assay standards, demonstrate the higher sensitivity of the assay variant with mammalian cell expressed lambda-NAP standard.