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. 2017 Jan:117:105-111.
doi: 10.1016/j.steroids.2016.08.019. Epub 2016 Sep 4.

Immunoassay for determination of trilobolide

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Immunoassay for determination of trilobolide

Lukáš Huml et al. Steroids. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

Trilobolide (Tb) is a pharmacologically interesting sesquiterpene lactone isolated from Laser trilobum (L.) Borkh. Structural relation to a sarco/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+-ATPase inhibitor thapsigargin bring promising prospects for Tb to be used in the development of new anti-cancer drugs. As long as there are still unanswered questions regarding its investigation, a need for novel analytical tools emerge. Since immunoassays serve as one of powerful tools within the investigation of natural products, the development of indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) utilizing coating based on avidin-biotin technology is described. In our set-up of ELISA, newly synthesized biotinylated Tb served as immobilized competitor. Tb-carboxymethyloxime-bovine serum albumin (BSA) and Tb-succinoyl-BSA conjugates were used separately for immunization of rabbits. Two sets of polyclonal antibodies (RAbs) were obtained. Antibodies against Tb-succinoyl-BSA conjugate (RAb No. 206) were chosen as the best. Under optimized conditions, limit of detection and 50% intercept of our ELISA were 849pg/mL and 8.89ng/mL, respectively. The cross-reactivity (CR) was tested on 10 structurally related compounds and CR did not exceed 6.1%. The reproducibility of the system is expressed as intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variation (9.7% and 11.4%, respectively). Based on conducted experiments, we proposed the use of ELISA for quantification of Tb in complex biological matrices such as plant extracts. A method was applied to analyze three extracts obtained from different parts of L. trilobum. Data obtained were compared to those acquired by UHPLC-MS/MS. The concordance between the methods (103-87%) showed the ability of ELISA to quantify Tb.

Keywords: Avidin-biotin; ELISA; Immunoassay; Laser trilobum; Synthesis; Trilobolide.

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