TY - THES A1 - Grandke, Julia T1 - Quality Assurance in Immunoassay Performance N2 - Nach wie vor fehlen allgemein anerkannte Qualitätskriterien zum Vergleich von Immunoassays, und die Durchführungsbedingungen der Assays unterscheiden sich sehr zwischen verschiedenen Laboratorien. Um dieses Problem anzugehen, wurde der Einfluss von verschiedenen Parametern auf die Leistungsfähigkeit der Assays untersucht, speziell für verschiedene Enzym-Immunoassays (EIAs) für die anthropogenen Marker Koffein (CAF) und Carbamazepin (CBZ). Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt wurde dabei auf die Parameter Temperatur, Assayformat und Kombination aus Enzym und Substrat gelegt. Der Parameter Temperatur wurde systematisch für jeden einzelnen Inkubationsschritt der direkten EIA Formate für beide Analyten untersucht; hierbei kamen sowohl das chromogene Substrat 3,3’,5,5’- Tetramethylbenzidin (TMB) wie auch das fluorogene Substrat 3-(4-Hydroxyphenyl)-propionsäure für das Enzym Meerrettichperoxidase (HRP) zum Einsatz. Eine Temperaturerniedrigung während des Kompetitionsschrittes führte zu einer Verbesserung der Assaysensitivität um den Faktor 10 für CBZ bzw. 15 für CAF, unabhängig davon welches Enzymsubstrat benutzt wurde. Experimente bei Raumtemperatur zeigten die geringsten Variationskoeffizienten, wodurch belegt werden konnte, dass der Randeffekt minimiert wird. Der Einfluss des Assayformats auf die unterschiedlichen Leistungskriterien wurde anhand der Bestimmung von CAF in Konsumgütern untersucht. Zusätzlich zu HRP und ihren Substraten wurde auch das Enzym Alkalische Phosphatase (AP) und das chromogene Substrat para-Nitrophenylphosphat sowie ein fluoreszierendes Substrat, 4-Methylumbelliferylphosphat, eingesetzt. Sieben Qualitätskriterien wurden definiert und validiert, um Immunoassays zu vergleichen. Die Bewertung der vier Kriterien (Sensitivität, Messbereich, relativer dynamischer Bereich sowie Güte der Anpassung) der Standardkurven ergab, dass das direkte Format dem indirekten Format überlegen ist; das HRP TMB Format zeigte hierbei die besten Ergebnisse. Drei zusätzliche Kriterien für eine anwendungsbezogene Analyse von Realproben, in diesem Fall CAF- enthaltende Getränke und Kosmetika, bestätigten dieses Ergebnis hinsichtlich Richtigkeit und Präzision innerhalb einer Platte (intra-plate) und zwischen verschiedenen Platten (inter-plate). Die Kombination aus Enzym und Substrat wurde untersucht, indem mehrere direkte CBZ Assays zur Analyse von Wasserproben eingesetzt wurden; in dieser Arbeit wurden drei HRP Assays und vier AP Assays mit Lumineszenzdetektion untersucht. Die HRP Assays erreichten eine bessere Sensitivität und eine geringere quantifizierbare Konzentration verglichen mit den AP Assays. Nur die HRP Assays und der Assay, welcher das chemilumineszierende „AP juice“ Substrat nutzt, konnten die Anforderungen für die vier Kriterien der Standardkurven erfüllen; alle anderen AP Assays wurden auf Grundlage der Kriterien im weiteren Verlauf nicht mehr für die Analyse der Realproben herangezogen. Der AP juice Assay ist nur auf Zulaufproben anwendbar, während alle HRP Assays gemäß intra- und inter-plate Präzision sowohl für Abwasserproben von Zu- und Ablauf genutzt werden können. Einzig die HRP Assays sind geeignet, um Oberflächengewässer zu analysieren; es zeigte sich, dass der HRP TMB Assay die besten Resultate liefert, weil jede Art von Wasserprobe mit einer hohen Präzision quantifiziert werden kann. Ob diese Qualitätskriterien, abgeleitet von den Standardkurven sowie der Anwendung auf Realproben, auf andere Immunoassayformate zum Zwecke der Qualitätssicherung übertragbar sind, muss noch gezeigt werden. N2 - Generally accepted quality criteria for the comparison of immunoassays are still missing and assay conditions vary greatly between different laboratories. To address this problem, the influence of different parameters on the overall assay performance was assessed, specifically for different enzyme immunoassays (EIAs) for the anthropogenic markers caffeine (CAF) and carbamazepine (CBZ). Special emphasis was dedicated to the parameters temperature, assay format and enzyme-substrate combination. The temperature parameter was systematically studied for all incubation steps of the direct EIA formats employing the photometric horseradish peroxidase (HRP) substrate 3,3’,5,5’- tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) and the fluorometric HRP substrate 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid for both analytes. A temperature decrease only during the competition step led to an increase in assay sensitivity by a factor of 10 to 15 for CBZ and CAF, respectively, independent of the enzyme substrate used. Room temperature experiments yielded the smallest coefficients of variations, minimizing the edge effect. The influence of the assay format on different performance parameters was studied with the determination of CAF in consumer products. In addition to the HRP substrates, the enzyme alkaline phosphate (AP) and its chromogenic substrate para-nitrophenyl phosphate and a fluorescent substrate, 4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate, were employed. Seven quality criteria were defined and validated to compare these immunoassays. The evaluation of the four criteria (sensitivity, measurement range, relative dynamic range and goodness of fit) for the standard curves revealed that the direct format is superior to the indirect format, with the HRP TMB format showing the best performance. Three additional criteria for an applicationdriven analysis of real samples, in this case CAF-containing beverages and cosmetics, confirmed this result in terms of accuracy as well as intra- and inter-plate precision. The enzyme-substrate combination was investigated when several direct CBZ assays were applied to the analysis of water samples; here, three HRP assays and four AP assays were studied, along with luminescence detection. The HRP assays reached better sensitivities and lower quantifiable concentrations compared to the AP assays. Only the HRP assays and the chemiluminescent AP juice assay fulfilled the requirements for the four criteria applied to standard curves; all other AP assays were not considered for application to real samples based on these criteria. The AP juice assay can only be employed for influent samples whereas all HRP assays are applicable to influent and effluent wastewater samples according to intra- and inter-plate precision. Furthermore, the HRP assays alone are suitable for surface water analysis; here, the chromogenic HRP TMB assay yielded the best results, as any type of water sample can be quantified with high precision. Whether these quality criteria, derived here for standard curves as well as their application to real samples, can be transferred to other immunoassay formats for quality assurance remains to be shown. T3 - BAM Dissertationsreihe - 107 PY - 2013 SN - 978-3-9815748-9-0 SN - 1613-4249 VL - 107 PB - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-51 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Grandke, Julia T1 - Development of different immunoassay formats and measurement uncertainty T2 - Tag der Chemie CY - Berlin, Germany DA - 2010-06-16 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-21551 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Grandke, Julia T1 - Temperature Dependence of Immunoassays T2 - ANAKON 2011 CY - Zurich, Switzerland DA - 2011-03-22 PY - 2011 AN - OPUS4-24949 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grandke, Julia A1 - Oberleitner, Lidia A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Garbe, L.-A. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf T1 - Quality assurance in immunoassay performance - carbamazepine immunoassay format evaluation and application on surface and waste water N2 - Carbamazepine (CBZ) is one of the most frequently detected pharmaceuticals in water samples. For the determination of this anthropogenic marker, various immunoassay formats were tested and evaluated in order to identify the most suitable one. For these direct competitive assays, the analyte was labelled with the enzyme horseradish peroxidase (HRP) or alkaline phosphatase (AP), and seven substrates with specific detection properties were used. The quality criteria for the standard curves were fulfilled by all HRP assays and the chemiluminescence AP format. Furthermore, intra- and inter-plate coefficients of variation as a measure of the achievable precision were determined for the samples. The application of the AP assays to surface water was unfeasible due to CBZ concentrations below the quantifiable concentration range. Surface as well as waste water samples could be analyzed with the HRP assays. Here, the HRP assay employing the chromogenic substrate 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine yielded the best results. PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c3ay40702k SN - 1759-9660 SN - 1759-9679 VL - 5 IS - 15 SP - 3754 EP - 3760 PB - RSC Publ. CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-28860 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Oberleitner, Lidia A1 - Grandke, Julia A1 - Mallwitz, F. A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Garbe, L.-A. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf T1 - Fluorescence polarization immunoassays for the quantification of caffeine in beverages N2 - Homogeneous fluorescence polarization immunoassays (FPIAs) were developed and compared for the determination of caffeine in beverages and cosmetics. FPIAs were performed in cuvettes in a spectrometer for kinetic FP measurements as well as in microtiter plates (MTPs) on a multimode reader. Both FPIAs showed measurement ranges in the µg/L range and were performed within 2 and 20 min, respectively. For the application on real samples, high coefficients of variations (CVs) were observed for the performance in MTPs; the CVs for FPIAs in cuvettes were below 4%. The correlations between this method and reference methods were satisfying. The sensitivity was sufficient for all tested samples including decaffeinated coffee without preconcentration steps. The FPIA in cuvettes allows a fast, precise, and automated quantitative analysis of caffeine in consumer products, whereas FPIAs in MTPs are suitable for semiquantitative high-throughput screenings. Moreover, specific quality criteria for heterogeneous assays were applied to homogeneous immunoassays. KW - caffeine KW - Decaffeinated coffee KW - Fluorescence polarization immunoassay KW - Homogeneous immunoassay KW - Quality assurance criteria PY - 2014 DO - https://doi.org/10.1021/jf4053226 SN - 0021-8561 SN - 1520-5118 VL - 62 IS - 11 SP - 2337 EP - 2343 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Columbus, Ohio AN - OPUS4-30613 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schneider, Rudolf A1 - Grandke, Julia T1 - Temperatureinfluss auf Immunoassays PY - 2012 SN - 1439-9598 SN - 1521-3854 VL - 60 IS - 11 SP - 1112 EP - 1113 PB - Wiley-VCH Verl. CY - Weinheim AN - OPUS4-26916 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Grandke, Julia T1 - Immonoassays for Caffeine T2 - Analytica 2012 CY - Munich, Germany DA - 2012-04-17 PY - 2012 AN - OPUS4-26019 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grandke, Julia A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Bremser, Wolfram A1 - Garbe, L.-A. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf T1 - Quality assurance in immunoassay performance-temperature effects N2 - Temperature is one factor that influences the performance of immunoassays. Most commonly all incubation steps of the immunoassay are performed at ambient temperature. To systematically study the influence of temperature deviations on assay parameters like signal variation coefficients, limit of detection and measurement range, direct competitive enzyme immunoassays for the determination of two anthropogenic markers, caffeine and carbamazepine, were run at different temperatures above and below room temperature during individual assay steps. The temperature during the competition step had the greatest impact on the assay sensitivity yielding changes in test midpoints by a factor of 10 to 15. For carbamazepine, the test midpoints varied from 36 ng L-1, 108 ng L-1 to 378 ng L-1 employing 4 °C, 21 °C, or 37 °C as incubation temperature, respectively. The edge effect can be minimized resulting in a good plate homogeneity with small variation coefficients, when the assay is performed at ambient temperature. KW - Immunoassay KW - Temperature effects PY - 2012 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c2ay05918e SN - 1759-9660 SN - 1759-9679 IS - 4 SP - 901 EP - 905 PB - RSC Publ. CY - Cambridge AN - OPUS4-25740 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grandke, Julia A1 - Oberleitner, Lidia A1 - Resch-Genger, Ute A1 - Garbe, L.-A. A1 - Schneider, Rudolf T1 - Quality assurance in immunoassay performance - comparison of different enzyme immunoassays for the determination of caffeine in consumer products N2 - Enzyme immunoassays with optical detection are amongst the most widely used bioanalytical tools. We defined seven parameters for the quality assessment of immunoassays that were addressed in a systematic study of direct and indirect immunoassays, using the enzymes horseradish peroxidase (HRP) and alkaline phosphatase (AP), the chromogenic substrates 3,3',5,5'-tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) and para-nitrophenyl phosphate, and the fluorescent substrates 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid and 4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate. The same monoclonal antibody against caffeine was used throughout the study. The four quality parameters regarding the standard curve were the test midpoint (sensitivity), the measurement range, the relative dynamic range of the signal, and the goodness of fit of the adjusted four-parameter logistic function. All HRP immunoassays showed a higher sensitivity compared to the AP assays. On the basis of all four criteria, it was established that the direct assay format is superior to the indirect format, the immunoassay using HRP TMB fulfilling all requirements best. In a second step, caffeine concentrations in 24 beverage and cosmetics samples were determined and three more quality parameters were assessed with this application. The direct HRP TMB assay showed one of the best intra- and inter-plate precisions and the best accuracy, defined by the correlation of results with those from the chosen reference method liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Considering all criteria, HRP TMB seems to be the enzyme substrate system of choice preferably used in the direct assay format. KW - Enzyme immunoassay KW - Caffeine KW - Enzyme substrate KW - Competitive assay KW - Assay format KW - Direct KW - Indirect PY - 2013 DO - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-012-6596-0 SN - 1618-2642 SN - 1618-2650 VL - 405 IS - 5 SP - 1601 EP - 1611 PB - Springer CY - Berlin AN - OPUS4-27639 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Grandke, Julia T1 - Development of different immunoassay formats and measurement uncertainty T2 - 4. Interdisziplinaäres Doktorandenseminar CY - Attendorn, Germany DA - 2010-02-21 PY - 2010 AN - OPUS4-21031 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -