Teijin Limited

Kenji Wakabayashi

Yataro Ichikawa

Yoshihiko Sumi

Nobuo Aoki

Yukiya Koike

Yoichi Sakata

Jun Mimuro

A method of immunologically determining free human protein S in an assay sample, which comprises contacting a primary antibody fixed to an insoluble solid carrier and a labelled secondary antibody with the assay sample, the primary and secondary antibodies having the property of binding to different epitopes of free human protein S, and one of the primary and secondary antibodies being a monoclonal antibody having the property of not binding to a complex of the human protein S and human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (C4bp) but specifically binding to the free human protein S. Also provided is a method of immunologically determining a complex of human protein S and human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (C4bp) in an assay sample, which comprises contacting a primary antibody fixed to an insoluble solid carrier and a labelled secondary antibody with the assay sample, one of the primary and secondary antibodies being a monoclonal antibody having the property of not binding to free human protein S and human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (C4bp) but binding specifically to the complex, and the other being an antibody having the property of binding to the human complement cofactor C4b-binding protein (4Cbp).

Immunological determination of free human protein S and C4bp-protein S

A monoclonal antibody which is specific to human protein C which has calcium bound at the gammacarboxyglutamic acid(Gla) domain and does not recognize human protein C which is not bound to calcium at the Gla domain. The monoclonal antibody is used in an immunoassay method for determining human protein C having a Gla domain and in a method for recovering human protein C having a Gal domain.

Monoclonal antibody to human protein C

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Hino, Japan

Kenji Wakabayashi