• Assay Type

  Solid Phase Sandwich ELISA

• Format

  96-well strip plate

• Range

  62.50 - 4,000 pg/mL

• Sufficient Materials

  For five 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 mouse Interleukin 34 (IL-34). The suggested diluent is suitable for the analysis of most cell culture supernate, cell lysate, serum, and plasma samples. Diluents for complex matrices, such as cell lysates, 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: IL-34

Interleukin 34 (IL-34; also known as uncharacterized protein C16orf77) is secreted as a homodimer consisting of 39 kDa monomers. It belongs to no known cytokine family. Human IL-34 is synthesized as a 242 amino acid (aa) precursor that contains a 20 aa signal sequence and a 222 aa mature chain. The mature chain contains one potential site of N-linked glycosylation. Human IL-34 is 71% identical to mouse IL-34 on the amino acid level.

IL-34 is expressed in various tissues, including the heart, brain, liver, kidney, spleen, thymus, testes, ovary, small intestine, prostate, and colon, and is most abundant in the spleen. The receptor for IL-34 is colony-stimulating factor 1 receptor (CSF-1R). IL-34 stimulates monocyte proliferation. In functional studies, IL-34, like CSF-1, the other ligand for CSF-1R, stimulated phosphorylation of extracellular signal-regulated kinase-1 and -2 (ERK1/2) in human monocytes. In addition, IL-34 promoted the formation of the colony-forming unit-macrophage (CFU-M), a macrophage progenitor, in human bone marrow cultures.

• Entrez Gene IDs:

  146433 (Human); 76527 (Mouse);

• Long Name:

  Interleukin 34

• Aliases:

  C16orf77; IL34; IL-34