Plasma myostatin measured by a competitive ELISA using a highly specific antiserum

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• 作者：Karl Florian Wintgens^a  ; [Author Vitae] ; Thomas Dschietzig^a ; ^{thomas.dschietzig@t-online.de}  ; [Author Vitae] ; Stanka Stoeva^a  ; [Author Vitae] ; Mats Paulsson^b ; ^c ; ^d  ; [Author Vitae] ; Franz Paul Armbruster^a  ; [Author Vitae]
• 关键词：Myo ; myostatin ; CHF ; congestive heart failure ; BMP-1 ; bone morphogenetic protein-1 ; LAP ; latency-associated protein ; LTBP ; latent TGF-尾-binding proteins ; GDF-11 ; growth differentiation factor-11 ; FLRG ; follistatin-related gene peptide
• 刊名：Clinica Chimica Acta
• 出版年：2012
• 期刊代码：54_00098981
• 类别：med
• 出版时间：16 August, 2012
• 卷：413
• 期：15-16
• 页码：1288-1294
• 文件大小：614 K

摘要

Background

Understanding the (patho)physiology of the negative muscle regulator myostatin (Myo) is important for patients with skeletal muscle disorders or cardiac disease. However, a reliable tool for measuring plasma Myo immunoreactivity is still lacking.

Methods

Human full-length proMyo was used to raise a polyclonal rabbit antiserum for a competitive Myo ELISA that was validated in patients with decompensated congestive heart failure (CHF) and in control patients (n = 20 each).

Results

The Myo antiserum detected all subunits of human proMyo. The calibration curve showed an optimal range between 0.3 and 83.3 ng/ml (7.5-2100 pmol/l), with no cross-reactivity to growth differentiation factor-11, follistatin and follistatin-related gene protein. The inter-assay and intra-assay variances in human serum were 鈮?#xA0;15%and 鈮?#xA0;10%, respectively; the detection limit was 270 pg/ml (6.75 pmol/l). The assay showed excellent linearity in human plasma. Plasma NT-proBNP and Myo were significantly elevated in decompensated CHF compared with control patients and decreased significantly upon recompensating therapy.

Conclusion

We describe the development of the first ELISA for myostatin immunoreactivity and its validation during recompensating therapy for CHF. This assay will be valuable for investigating neurological and cardiac diseases and states of cachexia, insulin resistance, and obesity.