I have generated an antibody against an antigen. Now, I want to use the developed antibody in the detection of the unknown sample. So, I want to coat the plasma sample as antigen. How that can be done? Is there any standard protocol? Please help.
Alexandr Chernov Sir, I have antibody developed in rabbit and also have anti-rabbit secondary antibody conjugated to HRP. Can I coat the plasma sample (containing Ag) in immuno plate and determine its concentration using these two antibodies?
already mentioned, the direct coating of plasma on the plate will usually not work if your target is not a major component. For other targets, the use of a sandwich-immunoassay (non-competitive immunoassay) should be used. In most cases, two different antibodies of different species are required. If you have only one antibody, a competitive assay may be applied.
Michael G. Weller Sir, can you please share a standard protocol of competitive ELISA stating concentration of primary and secondary antibody to be used, the concentration of antigen for coating etc.
It is not possible to give a protocol without many details of your system. Polyclonal antibodies are not standard reagents. Their dilution factors vary even from batch to batch. Such assays are optimized in a largely empirical way.
I have the same question for example for cortisol or any small molecule which competitve ELISA can I use, direct or indirect one and also if you have a good protocol as reagents I have BSA-corticsol that I want to coat on the plaque, Abs against cortisol, cortisol and Abs-HRP against Abs against cortisol.