Development of a polyclonal antibody-based indirect competitive ELISA for determination of sterigmatocystin in wheat and corn flours
2019
ABSTRACTSterigmatocystin (STC) is a toxic secondary metabolite produced by more than 50 fungal species, including Aspergillus flavus, A. parasiticus, A. nidulans, and A. versicolor. The Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives concluded that sterigmatocystin is genotoxic and carcinogenic with the critical effect determined to be carcinogenicity. The present study describes a simple method to prepare hapten and immunogens in order to generate polyclonal antibodies against this metabolite. We developed a sensitive and specific polyclonal antibody-based competitive indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ciELISA) for monitoring STC in wheat and corn flours without the need for derivatisation of STC or clean-up of samples by immunoaffinity chromatography for quantification. The half inhibitory concentration (IC50) of the established method was 4.52 ± 0.81 ng mL−1, with the limit of detection (IC10) being 0.19 ± 0.04 ng mL−1 in wheat and corn flour matrices with the coefficient of variation of less...
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