Measurement of thyroglobulin by liquid chromatography - Tandem mass spectrometry in serum and plasma in the presence of antithyroglobulin autoantibodies

Mark M. Kushnir, Alan L. Rockwood, William L. Roberts, Dev Abraham, Andrew N. Hoofnagle, A. Wayne Meikle

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Measurement of serum thyroglobulin (Tg) is used to monitor patients after treatment for differentiated thyroid carcinoma (TC). Difficulty in using Tg as a biomarker of the recurrence of TC in many patients stems from the presence of endogenous anti-Tg autoantibodies (Tg-AAbs), which can interfere with immunoassays (IAs) and cause false-negative results. METHODS: We enriched Tg from serum samples using rabbit polyclonal anti-Tg antiserum and protein precipitation. Unrelated proteins were partially depleted in the process. Enriched proteins were then denatured, reduced, and digested with trypsin after the addition of a winged internal standard peptide. A Tg-specific tryptic peptide was purified by immunoaffinity extraction and analyzed by 2-dimensional LC-MS/MS. Instrument cycle time was 6.5 min per sample. RESULTS: The lower limit of quantification was 0.5 ng/mL (0.76 fmol/mL dimer). Total imprecision of triplicate measurements in serum samples over 5 days was
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)982-990
Number of pages9
JournalClinical Chemistry
Volume59
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2013

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Clinical Biochemistry
  • Biochemistry, medical

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