Antibodies 101: ELISA (Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay)
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...detect proteins within a 96- or 384-well, flat-bottomed plate. The basic principle of an ELISA is that...or by binding to an antibody that is coating the bottom of the well), and then its concentration is detected...technique works by first coating the wells of a flat bottomed plate with a capture antibody that is specific...amount of an antibody that recognizes it, while the bottom of the wells are coated with another protein — ...light absorbed by a solution - of these wells is plotted against the known protein concentration. Importantly...
Figure 5: A standard curve is generated by plotting OD against known concentrations of your target...protein. The OD of experimental samples can then be plotted along this line to calculate the protein concentration...