• Assay Type

  Solid Phase Sandwich ELISA

• Format

  96-well strip plate

• Sample Type & Volume Required

  100 µL

• Range

  31.20 - 2,000 pg/mL

• Sufficient Materials

  For five or fifteen 96-well plates*

• Specificity

  Please see the

* Provided that the recommended microplates, buffers, diluents, substrates and solutions are used, and the assay is run as summarized in the Assay Procedure provided.

Ancillary Reagent Kit Available  

DY008, DuoSet ELISA Ancillary Reagent Kit 2 -

This DuoSet ELISA Development kit contains the basic components required for the development of sandwich ELISAs to measure natural and recombinant human TSLP. The suggested diluent is suitable for the analysis of most cell culture supernate samples. Diluents for complex matrices, such as serum and plasma, should be evaluated prior to use in this DuoSet.

Product Features

• Optimized capture and detection antibody pairings with recommended concentrations save lengthy development time

• Development protocols are provided to guide further assay optimization

• Assay can be customized to your specific needs

• Economical alternative to complete kits

Kit Content

• Capture Antibody

• Detection Antibody

• Recombinant Standard

• Streptavidin conjugated to horseradish-peroxidase (Streptavidin-HRP)

Other Reagents Required

DuoSet Ancillary Reagent Kit 2 (5 plates): (Catalog # ) containing 96 well microplates, plate sealers, substrate solution, stop solution, plate coating buffer (PBS), wash buffer, and Reagent Diluent Concentrate 2.

The components listed above may be purchased separately:

PBS: (Catalog # ), or 137 mM NaCl, 2.7 mM KCl, 8.1 mM Na₂HPO₄, 1.5 mM KH₂PO₄, pH 7.2 - 7.4, 0.2 µm filtered

Wash Buffer: (Catalog # ), or 0.05% Tween^® 20 in PBS, pH 7.2-7.4    

Reagent Diluent: (Catalog # ), or 1% BSA in PBS, pH 7.2-7.4, 0.2 µm filtered

Substrate Solution: 1:1 mixture of Color Reagent A (H₂O₂) and Color Reagent B (Tetramethylbenzidine) (Catalog # )

Stop Solution: 2 N H₂SO₄ (Catalog # )

Microplates: R&D Systems (Catalog # )

Plate Sealers: ELISA Plate Sealers (Catalog # )

Preparation and Storage

• Storage

  Store the unopened product at 2 - 8 °C. Do not use past expiration date.

Background: TSLP

Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin (TSLP) was originally identified as an activity from the conditioned medium of a mouse thymic stromal cell line that promoted the development of B cells. The activities of mouse TSLP overlap with, but are distinct from, those of mouse IL-7. Both mouse TSLP and IL-7 can co-stimulate growth of thymocytes and mature T cells, and support B lymphopoiesis in long-term cultures of fetal liver cells and bone-marrow cells. Whereas mouse IL-7 facilitates the development of B220   ⁺/IgM   ^- pre-B cells, mouse TSLP promotes the development B220   ⁺/IgM   ⁺ B cells. Human TSLP was reported to preferentially stimulate myeloid cells, inducing the release of T cell-attracting chemokines from monocytes and enhancing the maturation of CD11c   ⁺ dendritic cells. Human TSLP cDNA encodes a 159 amino acid (aa) residue precursor protein with a 28 aa signal sequence. Within the mature region, six of the seven cysteine residues present in the mouse TSLP involved in intramolecular disulfide bond formation are conserved in the human TSLP. Human TSLP shares approximately 43% aa sequence identity with mouse TSLP. By Northern blot analysis, human TSLP expression has been detected in many tissues with the highest expressions in heart, liver, testis and prostate. TSLP signals through a heterodimeric receptor complex that consists of IL-7 R alpha and the TSLP R, a member of the hemopoietin receptor family most closely related to Rgamma   _c.

TSLP R, also named Delta and CRLM-2 (Cytokine Receptor-like Module-2), was originally cloned as a novel type 1 cytokine receptor with similarity to the common gamma chain (gamma c). It was subsequently identified as a subunit of the cellular receptor for the IL-7-like cytokine TSLP and termed TSLP R. TSLP R shows 24% sequence identity with the mouse gc receptor. TSLP R expression is constitutive in immune and hematopoietic cells, but is up-regulated in Th2 cells.

• Entrez Gene IDs:

  85480 (Human); 53603 (Mouse);

• Long Name:

  Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin

• Aliases:

  thymic stromal lymphopoietin; TSLP