Multiplexed Elispot assay

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• 作者：William D. Harriman ; Ellen J. Collarini ; Remy G. Cromer ; April Dutta ; Magnus Str ; h ; Fen Zhang ; Lawrence M. Kauvar
• 关键词：Cytokines ; Lymphocytes ; Multiplex ; High content assay
• 刊名：Journal of Immunological Methods
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：28 February 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：341
• 期：1-2
• 页码：127-134
• 全文大小：1613 K

文摘

Micron scale latex beads are well established as highly biocompatible reagents. Imbibing two fluorescent dyes into the interior of the beads enables the creation of a family of combinatorially colored labels. Previous use of such beads, in flow cytometry for example, has focused on beads of  5 µm diameter. We show here that 280 nm combinatorially labeled particles can be used to create ELISA-style assays in 200 µm scale virtual wells, using digital microscopy as the readout. The utility of this technique is illustrated by profiling the secreted cytokine footprints of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in a multiparametric version of the popular Elispot assay. Doing so reveals noncanonical classes of T lymphocytes. We further show that the secreting cell type can be concurrently identified by surface staining with a cell type specific antibody conjugated to the same multiplexed beads.