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An Enhanced Direct Competitive Immunoassay for the Detection of Kanamycin and Tobramycin in Milk Using Multienzyme-Particle Amplification

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Kanamycin (Kan) and tobramycin (Tob) are widely found in many foods of animal origin, including milk. More rapid, simple, and sensitive methods are urgently needed to monitor antibiotic residues in milk. An enhanced direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dcELISA) based on gold nanoparticles (AuNPs)/horse radish peroxidase-Kan (HRP-Kan) was developed. A monoclonal antibody (Mab) against Kan was developed by classic hybridoma technology. The Mab had higher cross-reactivity with Tob (99.07%) and no cross-reactivity with other related antibiotics (< 0.5%). A novel multienzyme probe was synthesized based on AuNPs modified using HRP-Kan. The Mab against Kan, fixed by a goat anti-mouse antibody, was competitively bound by AuNPs/HRP-Kan and Kan in samples. After optimization, the limit of detection of the enhanced dcELISA was 0.022 ng/mL, representing a fivefold improvement when compared to that of conventional dcELISA (0.13 ng/mL). The recoveries of Kan and Tob in milk samples varied from 81.0 to 121.0% and 86.4 to 123.9%, respectively. Kan or Tob was found to be present at concentrations of 0.352–0.548 ng/mL in five milk samples from local markets. The results by the enhanced ELISA and UPLC-MS/MS had good correlation. It was suggested that the enhanced dcELISA, based on AuNPs/HRP-Kan, has higher sensitivity and reliable reproducibility, and thus, this could be used to detect trace contaminants.

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The authors would especially like to thank Dr. Fei Xu (Feed Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences) for her help in UPLC-MS/MS.

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This work was supported financially by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31502118 and 31570414), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2013M541606), the Natural Science Fund project of Jiangsu Province (BK20130507), the Scientific Research Funds in Jiangsu University (13JDG016), and the Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Material of Water Treatment.

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    Ling Jiang, Dali Wei, Kun Zeng, Jie Shao, Fang Zhu & Daolin Du

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Jiang, L., Wei, D., Zeng, K. et al. An Enhanced Direct Competitive Immunoassay for the Detection of Kanamycin and Tobramycin in Milk Using Multienzyme-Particle Amplification. Food Anal. Methods 11, 2066–2075 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12161-018-1185-2

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