TY - JOUR A1 - Oberleitner, Lidia A1 - Dahmen-Levison, U. A1 - Garbe, L.-A. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf T1 - Application of fluorescence polarization immunoassay for determination of carbamazepine in wastewater N2 - Carbamazepine is an antiepileptic drug that can be used as a marker for the cleaning efficiency of wastewater treatment plants. Here, we present the optimization of a fast and easy on-site measurement system based on fluorescence polarization immunoassay and the successful application to wastewater. A new monoclonal highly specific anti-carbamazepine antibody was applied. The automated assay procedure takes 16 min and does not require sample preparation besides filtration. The recovery rates for carbamazepine in wastewater samples were between 60.8 and 104% with good intra- and inter-assay coefficients of variations (less than 15 and 10%, respectively). This automated assay enables for the onsite measurement of carbamazepine in wastewater treatment plants. KW - On-site measurement KW - Wastewater treatment plant KW - Fluorescence polarization immunoassay KW - Assay optimization KW - Mix-and-read assay PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.01.063 SN - 0301-4797 SN - 1095-8630 VL - 193 SP - 92 EP - 97 PB - Elsevier Ltd. AN - OPUS4-39152 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Rudolf A1 - Schmidt, S. A1 - Hanelt, S. A1 - Canitz, C. A1 - Hoffmann, H. A1 - Garbe, L.-A. T1 - Synthetic Strategies for the Modification of Diclofenac N2 - For many heterogeneous sensor applications as well as the synthesis of hapten antigens to produce antibodies, protein conjugates of the target substance are essential. A requirement is that the target substance already offers or is modified to contain a functionality that allows for coupling to a protein, that is, an amino acid residue. Ideally, to avoid shielding of the compound by the carrier protein, a sufficient distance to the protein surface should be provided. With its carboxyl function diclofenac (DCF) allows for direct binding to lysine residues after in situ synthesis of the NHS ester. One problem is that diclofenac as free acid tends to autocondensation, which results in low yields. Here we describe the 'insertion' of a C6 spacer via synthesis of the amide with 6-aminohexanoic acid. To carry out the reaction in solution, first the methyl ester of the amino acid had to be produced. Due to otherwise low yields and large cleaning efforts, solid-phase synthesis on Fmoc Ahx Wang resin is recommended. The crude product is mainly contaminated by cleavage products from the resin which were removed by chromatography. The structure of the highly pure hapten was completely determined by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. KW - Diclophenac KW - Hapten synthesis KW - Solid-phase synthesis PY - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1588858 SN - 0936-5214 VL - 28 IS - 15 SP - 1984 EP - 1989 PB - Georg Thieme Verlag AN - OPUS4-43316 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -