Principle of Assay
Bovine IgM ELISA Kit (A326649) employs the competitive enzyme immunoassay technique for the quantitative measurement of bovine IgM in serum, plasma, cell culture supernatant, cell or tissue lysate, and other liquid samples. The 96-well microtiter plate has been pre-coated with IgM antigen. During the incubation, IgM present in the samples or standards competes with the fixed amount of immobilized IgM for binding sites on the Biotinylated Anti-IgM Antibody. The more IgM present in a sample or standard, the less Biotinylated Anti-IgM Antibody that binds to the plate. Following incubation, unbound Biotinylated Anti-IgM Antibody is removed by washing, and an HRP-Streptavidin conjugate is added to the wells and the microtiter plate is incubated. Following incubation and washing, TMB substrate solution is then used to visualize the HRP enzymatic reaction by catalysis to produce a blue-coloured product that changes to yellow after addition of acidic stop solution. The density of yellow is inversely proportional to the amount of IgM present in each sample or standard. The concentration of IgM can then be calculated by reading the O.D. absorbance at 450nm in a microplate reader and referring to the standard curve.