Bacterial protein sandwich ELISAs.docx doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.23297837

The aim of this study was to make universal chimeric conjugates to react with both avian and mammalian immunoglobulins in enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISAs). The periodate method was used in the conjugation process of cross-linking horseradish peroxidase to immunoglobulin-binding proteins (IBP) including staphylococcal protein A (SpA), streptococcal protein G (SpG) and peptostreptococcal protein L (SpL). By mixing up these three conjugates another four hybrid protein conjugates were created including protein LA (SpLA), protein LG (SpLG), protein AG (SpAG) and protein LAG (PLAG). Thirty- five ELISAs were standardized by a probabilistic combination of these immunoreagents. By using a panel of mainly mammalian immunoglobulins their reproducibility was checked by the determination of coefficient of variations (CV) for each one of the IgG-IBP binding. The source of immunoglobulins was their purification by affinity chromatography using a commercially available kit (PURE-1A).