Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology, Jan 1994, 55-62, Vol 1, No. 1
Copyright © 1994 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Appropriate coating methods and other conditions for enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay of smooth, rough, and neutral lipopolysaccharides of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

S Bantroch, T Buhler and JS Lam
Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Smooth, rough, and neutral forms of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from Pseudomonas aeruginosa were used to assess the appropriate conditions for effective enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) of LPS. Each of these forms of well-defined LPS was tested for the efficiency of antigen coating by various methods as well as to identify an appropriate type of microtiter plate to use. For smooth LPS, the standard carbonate-bicarbonate buffer method was as efficient as the other sensitivity-enhancing plate-coating methods compared. The rough LPS, which has an overall hydrophobic characteristic, was shown to adhere effectively, regardless of the coating method used, to only one type of microtiter plate, CovaLink. This type of plate has secondary amine groups attached on its polystyrene surface by carbon chain spacers, which likely favors hydrophobic interactions between the rough LPS and the well surfaces. Dehydration methods were effective for coating microtiter plates with the neutral LPS examined, which is composed predominantly of a D-rhamnan. For the two dehydration procedures, LPS suspended in water or the organic solvent chloroform- ethanol was added directly to the wells, and the solvent was allowed to dehydrate or evaporate overnight. Precoating of plates with either polymyxin or poly-L-lysine did not give any major improvement in coating with the various forms of LPS. The possibility of using proteinase K- and sodium dodecyl sulfate-treated LPS preparations for ELISAs was also investigated. Smooth LPS prepared by this method was as effective in ELISA as LPS prepared by the hot water-phenol method, while the rough and neutral LPSs prepared this way were not satisfactory for ELISA.

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