{"title":"Monoclonal antibodies against human endothelin-converting enzyme-1.","authors":"T Subkowski, H Hillen, B Kröger, M Schmidt","doi":"10.1080/01971529808005474","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Endothelin-converting enzyme-1 (ECE-1) is a membrane-bound metalloprotease which specifically converts the inactive precursor big-endothelin-1 (big ET-1) to the vasoactive endothelin-1 (ET-1). Six different mouse hybridoma cell lines have been generated secreting monoclonal antibodies specific to human ECE-1. These antibodies have been proven useful in a fast and efficient one-step purification of membrane-bound ECE-1 as well as of artificial soluble ECE-1 by immunoaffinity chromatography. The antibodies are suitable for a quantification of ECE-1 in solution by a sandwich-ELISA and for the immunohistochemical detection of ECE-1 in the cell membrane.</p>","PeriodicalId":16060,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immunoassay","volume":"19 2-3","pages":"75-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/01971529808005474","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of immunoassay","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/01971529808005474","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Endothelin-converting enzyme-1 (ECE-1) is a membrane-bound metalloprotease which specifically converts the inactive precursor big-endothelin-1 (big ET-1) to the vasoactive endothelin-1 (ET-1). Six different mouse hybridoma cell lines have been generated secreting monoclonal antibodies specific to human ECE-1. These antibodies have been proven useful in a fast and efficient one-step purification of membrane-bound ECE-1 as well as of artificial soluble ECE-1 by immunoaffinity chromatography. The antibodies are suitable for a quantification of ECE-1 in solution by a sandwich-ELISA and for the immunohistochemical detection of ECE-1 in the cell membrane.