Abstract
Immunoassays provide a high-throughput method for monitoring pesticides in foods and the environment. Due to easy generation and capable of being manipulated, chicken single-chain variable fragment (scFv) is attractive in the development of immunoassays for pesticides. Two scFvs (X1 and X2) against the insecticide carbaryl were generated from a chicken immunized with hapten C1 conjugated to keyhole limpet hemocyanin and fused with alkaline phosphatase (AP) to develop a rapid one-step enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for this pesticide. X2-AP showed higher binding affinity to carbaryl than X1-AP. The X2-AP-based ELISA had a half-maximum signal inhibition concentration of 15 ng mL−1 and a limit of detection of 1.6 ng mL−1. This assay showed negligible cross-reactivity with other carbamate pesticides (<0.1%) and low cross-reactivity with 1-naphthol (5%). The average recoveries of carbaryl spiked in soil, apple and pear samples by the one-step assay ranged from 90% to 114% and agreed well with those of high-performance liquid chromatography. The chicken scFv-based assay showed promise as a high-throughput screening tool for carbaryl in environmental and food matrices.
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