Preparation of sensitive monoclonal antibodies against triptolide and establishment of a rapid and cost-effective icELISA method for authentication of Tripterygium wilfordii and related products

Abstract Triptolide is a characteristic chemical component and quality marker of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F., a widely used traditional Chinese medicine with various pharmacological activities. Triptolide-14-succinate is a derivative of triptolide that can be combined with bovine serum albumin and ovalbumin to form an immunogen and coating antigen. Monoclonal antibody specific to triptolide-14-succinate conjugated with ovalbumin was produced and named mAb 2D10 1H8. An indirect competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (icELISA) was established by using mAb 2D10 1H8. The 50% inhibition concentration and working range of triptolide for the icELISA were 0.28 and 0.09–0.87 μg mL−1, (based on 20–80% binding inhibition of mAb 2D10 1H8 to triptolide, R2 = 0.9997, y = -0.571Logx + 0.246), respectively. The icELISA displayed crossreactivity values of 48.6, 20.5, 3.27, and