Analysis of vitamin B 12 in seawater and marine sediment porewater using ELISA

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Vitamin B12 (B 12) is a set of closely related organocobalt compounds required by phytoplankton. A highly sen- sitive and specific enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for the determination of B 12 in seawater and marine sediment porewater. An antibody directed against B 12 was coated on the surface of a 96- well microtiter plate, and horseradish peroxidase (HRP) was used as a labeling enzyme. In the indirect compet- itive immunoassay format, water samples or standards and a constant amount of HRP-labeled B 12 were added into the microtiter plate wells, HRP-labeled and free B 12 compete for binding to the plate-bound antibody. After immunoreaction, the immunochemically adsorbed HRP-B 12 conjugate was determined by measuring the absorbance produced in a solution containing substrate tetramethylbenzidine (TMB) and hydrogen peroxide. The calibration graph for B 12 was linear over the range of 0.4-100 ng/mL (0.3-74 nM; higher concentrations were not evaluated) with a detection limit of 0.2 ng/mL (3Symbol.-1.c02). Coupled with C-18 column extraction-precon- centration, the method is readily applicable to seawater levels (~1-10 pM). No interferences from humic acids, total dissolved organic matter (DOM), and salinity were observed. ELISA determined B 12 in coastal seawater and surface tidal flat porewater (0-2 cm) ranged from 4.5-38 pM and 12-47 pM, respectively. © 2011, by the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, Inc.

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Zhu, Q., Aller, R. C., & Kaushik, A. (2011). Analysis of vitamin B 12 in seawater and marine sediment porewater using ELISA. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods, 9(OCTOBER), 515–523. https://doi.org/10.4319/lom.2011.9.515

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