A Monoclonal Antibody-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Determination of Homoharringtonine

Benyakan Pongkitwitoon; Seiichi Sakamoto; Rika Nagamitsu; Waraporn Putalun; Hiroyuki Tanaka; Satoshi Morimoto

doi:10.1055/a-0578-8689

Planta Medica, Table of Contents

Planta Med 2018; 84(14): 1038-1044
DOI: 10.1055/a-0578-8689

Natural Product Chemistry and Analytical Studies

Original Papers

Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

A Monoclonal Antibody-Based Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay for Determination of Homoharringtonine

Benyakan Pongkitwitoon^*

¹Department of Pharmaceutical Botany, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

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Seiichi Sakamoto^*

²Department of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Rika Nagamitsu

²Department of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Waraporn Putalun

³Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

⁴Research Group for Pharmaceutical Activities of Natural Products using Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (PANPB), National Research University-Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

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Hiroyuki Tanaka

²Department of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Satoshi Morimoto

²Department of Pharmacognosy, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Abstract

Homoharringtonine (HHT), also known as omacetaxine, is a natural compound found in the genus Cephalotaxus and is a promising pharmaceutical drug used for the treatment of chronic or accelerated phase chronic myeloid leukemia. As a tool for the quantitative determination of HHT, a specific monoclonal antibody against HHT (MAb 6A1) was generated by conjugates prepared via sodium periodate-mediated oxidation. The developed indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icELISA) using MAb 6A1 was found to be highly specific and sensitive with a limit of detection for HHT of 48.8 ng/mL. Validation assays to evaluate precision and accuracy of the method were conducted by the use of intra- and inter-assay analysis, recovery test, and comparison analysis between the amounts of HHT determined by ELISA and high-performance liquid chromatography. These results revealed that the established icELISA using MAb 6A1 is specific, sensitive, and reliable enough to be applied to the qualitative analysis for HHT. Furthermore, the results of this study support the usefulness of sodium periodate as a reagent for the conjugation between Cephalotaxus alkaloids and proteins for producing specific antibodies.

Key words

Cephalotaxus harringtonii - enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay - homoharringtonine - monoclonal antibody - sodium periodate-mediated conjugation - Taxaceae

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