Immunochemical methods future developments

The development of highly sensitive proteomic methods for the characterization of membrane-bound proteins should facilitate the systematic sequencing of all the proteins that are present in fractions with high callose synthase activity. Also, the progress made on in vitro synthesis of cellulose is promising and proteomic analysis may also be used on fractions enriched in cellulose synthases in the near future. This approach combined with detailed structural characterization of in vitro products, immunochemical methods, molecular biology and gene... 

It is unlikely that future work to quantify dietary exposure and identify potential environmental sources of PCDDs, PCDFs and PCBs will be on a much greater scale than recent research unless quicker and less expensive methods of food analysis are developed for these substances. Recent developments in immunochemical techniques offer this potential. 

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is testing immunochemical assays for possible adept ion as analytical methods for pesticide residues in environmental samples. The work was initially undertaken by the Environmental Monitoring and Pest Management Branch (EM PM), and now involves the Department s Chemistry Laboratory Services Brandi as well. This paper discusses the history of our involvement in irrmunochemistry as an analytical method, our imnunochemical method development program, the format and other details of the assay we are using, and finally, looks into the future in anticipation of sane institutional problems which may arise. 

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