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EK000028-EK0325: Human EGF ELISA Kit
Range 4.7pg/ml-300pg/ml
Sensitivity < 1 pg/ml
Specificity: no detectable cross- reactivity with TGF or other cytokine.
Application: for quantitative detection of human EGF in sera, body fluids, tissue lysates or cell culture supernates.
Expiration: four months at 4°C and eight months at -20°C.
Background
Epidermal growth factor or EGF is a growth factor that plays an important role in the regulation of cell growth, proliferation, and differentiation by binding to its receptor EGFR. Human EGF is a 6045-Da protein with 53 amino acid residues and three intramolecular disulfide bonds.1 EGF acts by binding with high affinity to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) on the cell surface and stimulating the intrinsic protein-tyrosine kinase activity of the receptor. EGF results in cellular proliferation, differentiation, and survival.2 It also has a profound effect on the differentiation of specific cells in vivo and is a potent mitogenic factor for a variety of cultured cells of both ectodermal and mesodermal origin.3 EGF has strong expression in kidney, salivary gland, cerebrum, and prostate, moderate expression in trachea and thyroid, and low expression in bone marrow, heart, spleen, thymus, uterus, and colon. No expression was detected in adrenal gland, liver, lung, cerebellum, placenta, and small intestine.4
Principle
The ELISA Kit is based on standard sandwich enzyme-linked immune-sorbent assay technology. The target specific antibodies are precoated onto 96-well plates. The target from the sample is bound to the microwell. The biotinylated target specific detection antibodies are added to the microwells and followed by washing with the PBS or TBS buffer. Avidin-Biotin-Peroxidase Complex is added and unbound conjugates are washed away with the PBS or TBS buffer. TMB, the HRP (horseradish peroxidase) substrate, is used to visualize color change resulting from the HRP enzymatic reaction. TMB is catalyzed by HRP to produce the blue color. The color changes into yellow after the acidic stop solution is added. The density of the yellow color is proportional to the target amount from the sample captured in the microwells.
Reference
1. Carpenter G, Cohen S (May 1990). "Epidermal growth factor". The Journal of Biological Chemistry 265 (14): 7709-12.
2. Herbst RS (2004). "Review of epidermal growth factor receptor biology". International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 59 (2 Suppl): 21-6.
3. Carpenter, G.; Cohen, S.: Epidermal growth factor. Ann. Rev. Biochem. 48: 193-216, 1979.
4. Groenestege, W. M. T.; Thebault, S.; van der Wijst, J.; van den Berg, D.; Janssen, R.; Tejpar, S.; van den Heuvel, L. P.; van Cutsem, E.; Hoenderop, J. G.; Knoers, N. V.; Bindels, R. J. : Impaired basolateral sorting of pro-EGF causes isolated recessive renal hypomagnesemia. J. Clin. Invest. 117: 2260-2267, 2007.
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