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Development of a sensitive and group‐specific polyclonal antibody‐based enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for detection of malachite green and leucomalachite green in water and fish samples
Author(s) -
Xing Weiwei,
He Li,
Yang Hong,
Sun Chengjun,
Li Dawei,
Yang Xiaoming,
Li Yuan,
Deng Anping
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.3695
Subject(s) - malachite green , crystal violet , chromatography , polyclonal antibodies , chemistry , high performance liquid chromatography , detection limit , standard curve , fish <actinopterygii> , antibody , adsorption , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , fishery , organic chemistry , immunology
BACKGROUND: Malachite green (MG) is widely used in fishery, since it is easily adsorbed by fish during waterborne exposure and is rapidly metabolised into leucomalachite green (LMG). However, both MG and LMG are potential carcinogens, teratogens and mutagens. In this study the LMG derivative bearing an amino group on the phenyl ring was synthesised and coupled to carrier proteins. An LMG polyclonal antibody‐based enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed and characterised. RESULTS: The ELISA standard curve was constructed with concentrations of 0.1–100 ng mL −1 . The IC 50 value for nine standard curves was in the range 0.9–2.6 ng mL −1 and the limit of detection at a signal‐to‐noise ratio of 3 was 0.02–0.10 ng mL −1 . The cross‐reactivity values of the LMG antibody with MG, crystal violet and leucocrystal violet were 95.25, 29.07 and 212.38% respectively, while less than 0.2% cross‐reactivity was found with eight other compounds. For LMG‐spiked water and fish samples, recoveries were 76.2–95.0% and the correlation coefficient of ELISA with high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was 0.9752 ( n = 7). For (LMG + MG)‐spiked fish samples the results of ELISA were similar to those of HPLC. CONCLUSION: The proposed ELISA can be utilised as an analytical tool for detecting the sum of MG and LMG in water and fish muscle samples. Copyright © 2009 Society of Chemical Industry