COMPETITION ASSAY

摘要

The application provides competition assays used to detect free-light chains or intact immunoglobulins comprising incubating the sample with anti-FLC antibody, or heavy chain class-light chain type-specific antibodies, or fragments of such antibodies, and a known amount of FLC or intact immunoglobulin and detecting the binding of the antibody to the known amount of FLC or immunoglobulin. Assay kits and methods of producing particles coated with FLC are also provided.