Acridinium compounds labels

ImmunO lSS iy. Chemiluminescence compounds (eg, acridinium esters and sulfonamides, isoluminol), luciferases (eg, firefly, marine bacterial, Benilla and Varela luciferase), photoproteins (eg, aequorin, Benilld), and components of bioluminescence reactions have been tested as replacements for radioactive labels in both competitive and sandwich-type immunoassays. Acridinium ester labels are used extensively in routine clinical immunoassay analysis designed to detect a wide range of hormones, cancer markers, specific antibodies, specific proteins, and therapeutic dmgs. An acridinium ester label produces a flash of light when it reacts with an alkaline solution of hydrogen peroxide. The detection limit for the label is 0.5 amol. 

Signal antibodies have most often been radiolabeled (for immunoradiometric assays [IRMA]) with ( 25j) 7,62,i%,344,4i4 labeled with a chemiluminescent (for immunochemilummo-metric assays [ICMA]) compound, such as acridinium ester, or an enzyme (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA] or enzyme immunoassay [EIA]), such as ALP, converting a substrate (1,2-dioxetane phosphate) to a chemiluminescent product. 

Some analytical methods, for example, for detection of trace metals, have been devised based on this reaction. Luminol has also been suggested as a labeling compound for the ECL immunoassay. In addition to luminol there are a number of analogous chemiluminescent compounds that require hydrogen peroxide in their luminescent reactions. Among these compounds the acridine derivatives lucigenin and acridinium esters have been used in ECL methods. 

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