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High molecular weight neoglycoconjugates for solid phase assays

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Adsorption of a carbohydrate on solid phase is the necessary stage of the immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and analogous methods of the study of carbohydrate-protein interaction. Usually physical adsorption on polystyrene requires a high concentration of conjugated carbohydrate and, thus, enormous consumption of it. In this study, we explored two approaches allowing more rational use of oligosaccharide (Glyc). The first of them is based on the covalent immobilization of neoglycoconjugates on the NH2-modified polystyrene; the second one is based on the elevated adherence of high m.w. neoglycoconjugates to polystyrene. Covalent immobilization of polyacrylamide conjugates, Glyc-PAA, provided a possibility to solve the problem, but the nonspecific binding of antibodies in ELISA proved to be unacceptably high. At the same time, the increase of the Glyc-PAA m.w. from 30 kDa to 2,000 kDa allowed a 10–20 fold decrease of its consumption, when using physical adsorption, whereas the assay background remained at the low level. The amount of 2,000 kDa Glyc-PAA that is sufficient for the coating of a standard 96-well plate corresponds to the nanomole level of oligosaccharide, this providing a possibility to use saccharides that are available in a very limited amount when studying the carbohydrate-protein interaction with solid-phase techniques. Published in 2005.

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Abbreviations

BSA:

bovine serum albumin

DMSO:

dimethylsulfoxide

pNPA30 :

poly(4-nitrophenyl acrylate), 30 kDa

pNSA2000 :

poly(N-oxysuccinimidyl acrylate), 2000 kDa

PAA:

poly(N-2-hydroxyethylacrylamide)

Atri :

GalNAcα1-3(Fucα1-2)Gal

Btri :

Galα 1-3(Fucα 1-2)Gal

ELISA:

enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay

OD:

optical density

Glyc:

oligosaccharide residue

Ig:

immunoglobulin

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Shilova, N.V., Galanina, O.E., Pochechueva, T.V. et al. High molecular weight neoglycoconjugates for solid phase assays. Glycoconj J 22, 43–51 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10719-005-0280-y

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