Human IL-6R alpha Magnetic Luminex® Performance Assay

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Human IL-6R alpha Magnetic Luminex® Performance Assay Summary

Panel Luminex Performance Human Biomarker Panel A
Assay Type Magnetic bead-based multiplex assay for the Luminex® platform
Format 1 x 96-well microplate and Magnetic antibody-coated beads
Species Human
Analytes Detected Please see analyte list in assay customization tool below.
Performance Validation Our Luminex High Performance Assays undergo our most extensive validation testing. All Luminex High Performance Assay Panels are validated for use with serum and plasma samples. Some High Performance Assays are additionally validated for cell culture supernatants, milk, saliva, or urine, as indicated on the individual product data sheets. Luminex High Performance Assays are tested for sensitivity (three-quarters the low standard), intra-assay precision, inter-assay precision, and to ensure assay linearity for validated sample types. Recovery values for individual samples in validated sample types are also tested. Validation data for each analyte can be found in the product datasheet.

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Below are kits that are available based on your selections. These selections may be further customized before adding to the cart or emailing the configuration to your purchasing department or local distributor to place your order. Selected analytes may be included in more than one High Performance Assay. All assay options are displayed.

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Product Features

Magnetic Luminex High Performance Assays are flexible bead-based multiplex assays. They allow up to 50 user-defined target analytes to be simultaneously profiled using cell culture supernates, serum, or plasma samples. Some panels are also validated with human milk, saliva, and/or urine samples.

  • Simultaneously profile Human IL-6R alpha with up to analytes of your choice in one sample
  • Magnetic format allows for easier wash steps
  • Undergoes similar validation testing as Quantikine® ELISA Kits
  • Precise and Specific
  • Requires a small sample volume (<50 µL)
  • Run your assay in just 3-5 hours
  • Mass-calibrated standards for consistent results with every new lot of material
  • Enough reagents for one 96-well plate
Base Kit Components
  • Standard Cocktail(s)
  • Bead Diluent
  • Biotin Antibody Diluent
  • Calibrator Diluent
  • Wash Buffer
  • Streptavidin-PE
  • One flat-bottom 96-well Microplate
  • Foil Plate Sealers (4)
  • Mixing Bottle
  • Standard Value Card**

**A standard curve must be generated each time an assay is run, utilizing values from the Standard Value Card included in the Base Kit.

Bead Set Contents
  • User-mix antibody-coated Magnetic beads in individual vials
  • User-mixed cocktail of biotinylated detection antibody

Precision

Intra-assay Precision (precision within an assay) - Three samples of known concentration were tested twenty times on one plate to assess intra-assay precision.

Inter-assay Precision (precision between assays) - Three samples of known concentration were tested in thirty-two separate assays to assess precision between assays.

  Intra-Assay Precision Inter-Assay Precision
Sample 1 2 3 1 2 3
n 20 20 20 32 32 32
Mean (pg/mL) 47.3 373 2225 48.1 376 2591
Standard deviation 3.52 23.3 130 5.92 35.7 176
CV (%) 7.4 6.2 5.8 12.3 9.5 6.8
 

Recovery

Samples containing and/or spiked with human IL-6 Ra were evaluated for recovery.

Sample Type Average % Recovery Range
Cell culture supernates 98 91-106%
 

Linearity

Samples containing and/or spiked with human IL-6 Ra were serially diluted to evaluate assay linearity.

  Cell culture supernates* Serum EDTA plasma Heparin plasma
1:2 Average % of Expected 100 98 93 93
Range (%) 88-120 86-113 78-104 84-102
1:4 Average % of Expected 102 101 98 95
Range (%) 89-115 90-111 81-115 86-106
1:8 Average % of Expected 100 106 101 103
Range (%) 86-109 90-112 87-116 91-115
Which Luminex Assay is right for me?

Assays for the Luminex platform are offered as High Performance Assays or Assays. The Luminex High Performance Assays are fully validated panels with a focused selection of analytes. They are available in We Mix, You Mix, and Predetermined formats. The Luminex Assays allows for the maximum number of analytes in a multiplex and is supplied as a premixed kit. View a table comparing the features and benefits of these bead-based multiplex assays.

More Information About Magnetic Bead-based Multiplex Kits For The Luminex® Platform

Magnetic Luminex High Performance Assays are designed for use with the Luminex MAGPIX CCD Imager. Alternatively, kits can be used with the Luminex 100/200™ or FLEXMAP 3D, dual laser, flow-based sorting and detection platforms.

Analyte-specific antibodies are pre-coated onto color-coded microparticles. Microparticles, standards, and samples are pipetted into wells and the immobilized antibodies bind the analytes of interest. After washing away any unbound substances, a biotinylated antibody cocktail specific to the analytes of interest is added to each well. Following a wash to remove any unbound biotinylated antibody, Streptavidin-Phycoerythrin conjugate (Streptavidin-PE), which binds to the biotinylated detection antibodies, is added to each well. A final wash removes unbound Streptavidin-PE and the microparticles are resuspended in buffer and read using the Luminex or Bio-Plex analyzer. One laser is bead-specific and determines which analyte is being detected. A magnet in the analyzer captures and holds the superparaMagnetic microparticles in a monolayer. Two spectrally distinct Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) illuminate the beads. One LED identifies the analyte that is being detected and the second LED determines the magnitude of the PE-derived signal, which is in direct proportion to the amount of analyte bound. Each well is imaged with a CCD camera. Kits can also be used with Luminex 100/200 or a Bio-Rad Bio-Plex dual laser, flow-based systems.

Scientific Data

Quantist software graph of signal intensity versus concentration for IL-6R alpha in the Human Biomarker A Luminex Panel

Background: IL-6R alpha

IL-6 R alpha is a transmembrane subunit of the receptor for Interleukin-6. It associates with gp130 which is a shared component of the receptors for CLC, CNTF, CT-1, IL-11, IL-27, LIF, and OSM. Soluble forms of IL-6 R alpha are generated by both alternative splicing and proteolytic cleavage. In a mechanism known as trans-signaling, complexes of soluble IL-6 and IL-6 R alpha elicit responses from gp130-expressing cells that lack cell surface IL-6 R alpha. IL-6 plays important roles in the acute phase reaction, inflammation, hematopoiesis, bone metabolism, and cancer progression. IL-6, along with TNF-alpha and IL-1, drives the acute inflammatory response and the transition from acute inflammation to either acquired immunity or chronic inflammatory disease. When dysregulated, it contributes to chronic inflammation in obesity, insulin resistance, inflammatory bowel disease, arthritis, sepsis, and atherosclerosis.

Long Name
Interleukin 6 Receptor alpha
Entrez Gene IDs
3570 (Human); 16194 (Mouse); 24499 (Rat); 102116430 (Cynomolgus Monkey)
Alternate Names
CD126; gp80; IL-6 R alpha; IL6Q; IL6R alpha; IL-6R alpha; IL6R; IL-6R-1; IL6RA; IL-6Ra; IL6RQ; interleukin 6 receptor

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