A highly sensitive polyclonal antibody-based ELISA for therapeutic monitoring and pharmacokinetic studies of lenalidomide

J Immunoassay Immunochem. 2014;35(2):130-8. doi: 10.1080/15321819.2013.824898.

Abstract

This article describes, for the first time, a highly sensitive and specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for therapeutic monitoring and pharmacokinetic studies of lenalidomide (LND), the potent drug for treatment of multiple myeloma (MM). The assay employed a polyclonal antibody that specifically recognizes LND with high affinity, and LND conjugate of bovine serum albumin (LND-BSA) immobilized onto microplate wells as a solid phase. The assay involved a competitive binding reaction between LND, in plasma sample, and the immobilized LND-BSA for the binding sites on a limited amount of the anti-LND antibody. The assay limit of detection was 0.05 ng/mL and the effective working range at relative standard deviations (RSD) of ≤5% was 0.1-20 ng/mL. Analytical recovery of LND from spiked plasma was 100.98 ± 3.05. The precisions of the assay were satisfactory; RSD was 2.96-6.67% and 4.46-7.14%, for the intra- and inter-assay precision, respectively. The procedure is convenient, and one can analyze ∼200 samples per working day, facilitating the processing of large-number batch of samples in clinical laboratories. The proposed ELISA has a great value in routine analysis of LND for its therapeutic monitoring and pharmacokinetic studies.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Cattle
  • Cloning, Molecular
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay / methods*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immune Sera / immunology*
  • Lenalidomide
  • Multiple Myeloma / drug therapy*
  • Rabbits
  • Sensitivity and Specificity
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine / chemistry
  • Thalidomide / analogs & derivatives*
  • Thalidomide / blood
  • Thalidomide / pharmacokinetics
  • Thalidomide / therapeutic use

Substances

  • Immune Sera
  • Serum Albumin, Bovine
  • Thalidomide
  • Lenalidomide