Measurement of blood-based biomarkers for Alzheimer disease is simpler and more accessible when compared to CSF. We report the development and validation of seven Simoa® immunoassays for the detection of AB40, AB42, A-Syn, CD33, P-Tau 181, Tau, and TREM2 in human serum, plasma, or CSF.
Using the Quanterix® Simoa® technology (SR-X) platform, AB40, AB42, A-Syn, CD33, P-Tau 181, Tau, and TREM2 were developed and analytically validated in human serum, plasma, or CSF per CLSI standards.
We have developed and analytically validated Simoa® immunoassays to detect AB40, AB42, A-Syn, CD33, P-Tau 181, Tau, and TREM2 in human serum, plasma, or CSF. The assays met acceptance criteria for sensitivity, precision, stability, interference, and parallelism. The calibration curves in serum/plasma were linear from 16-2000 pg/mL for AB40, 18-40,000 pg/mL for AB42, 0.13-80 ng/mL for A-Syn, 0.012-60 ng/mL for CD33, 0.60-3000 pg/mL for P-Tau 181, 0.12-600 pg/mL for Tau, and 0.30-38 ng/mL for TREM2. For CSF, the linear ranges were from 626-80,000 pg/mL for AB40, 72-160,000 pg/mL for AB42, 0.013-8.0 ng/mL for A-Syn, 0.012-60 ng/mL for CD33, 30-150,000 pg/mL for P-Tau 181, 0.30-1500 pg/mL for Tau, and 0.60-76 ng/mL for TREM2. The three quality controls met inter assay precision with %CV ≤16% for levels 1 and 2, and ≤20% for level 3 across all analytes. No interference was observed with bilirubin, hemoglobin, or triglyceride. The sensitivity of the assays in human serum/plasma was demonstrated by the LLOQ values of 28 pg/mL, 47 pg/mL, 0.20 ng/mL, 0.11 ng/mL, 2.8 pg/mL, 0.22 pg/mL, and 0.59 ng/mL for AB40, AB42, A-Syn, CD33, P-Tau 181, Tau, and TREM2, respectively. For human CSF, the LLOQ values of 1139 pg/mL, 187 pg/mL, 0.020 ng/mL, 0.11 ng/mL, 142 pg/mL, 0.56 pg/mL, and 1.2 ng/mL for AB40, AB42, A-Syn, CD33, P-Tau 181, Tau, and TREM2 in human CSF, respectively. The stability of the analytes was established under various conditions, such as freeze-thaw cycles, short-term and long-term storage.
These assays demonstrated acceptable performance for clinical implementation as research use only and may be useful for blood-based biomarker studies in clinical trials.