A simplified immunoprecipitation method for quantitatively measuring antibody responses in clinical sera samples by using mammalian-produced <Emphasis Type="Italic">Renilla</Emphasis>luciferase-antigen fusion proteins
(1) Department of Oncology, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, D.C 20057, USA
Abstract:
Background
Assays detecting human antigen-specific antibodies are medically useful. However, the usefulness of existing simple immunoassay
formats is limited by technical considerations such as sera antibodies to contaminants in insufficiently pure antigen, a problem
likely exacerbated when antigen panels are screened to obtain clinically useful data.