I wanted to measure rat mast cell preotease-1 activity. Is there any ELISA kit available ? I couldnot find one. Also, if I have to make own plates and do it, what is the best antibody that have worked ?
Your requested item has many ELISA kits and also antibody sets for your lab made ELISA method. If you search in google with key words (Rat MCPT-1 ELISA kit) you can find many producer companies for it.
But an important note is, you can not measure the enzyme activity using ELISA method. As you know about a functional molecule such as enzyme you can determine two items: enzyme amount and enzyme activity.
For measuring enzyme amount you can use ELISA method. an enzyme with high, medium, low or without activity can be detect and measure by ELISA method. And then express the results based on ng/ml or microgram/L and so on.
If you really need the enzyme activity you should follow substrate reduction or product increase during optimum reaction conditions. And then express the results based on U/ml or U/L or U/mg tissue and so on.