Immunological process for PSA determination

US6361955B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Hosel · Tutzing, DE
• Jochen Peter · Waiblingen, DE
• Carlo Unverzagt · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 1, 1999
• Grant date: Mar 26, 2002
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N33/57434
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention concerns an immunological process for the determination of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), particularly for the determination of free PSA, the total concentration of PSA and the concentration of PSA-serpin complexes by incubation of the sample with at least one antibody specifically binding to free PSA but not to complex PSA. The process is characterized in that especially before the determination of the total PSA concentration a nucleophile containing amine is added to the sample. Furthermore, the invention concerns the use of amine-containing nucleophiles for the production of free PSA as well as a procedure for preparing free PSA from complex PSA by incubation of a sample containing complex PSA with a nucleophile containing amine.