To identify the explosive used in a terrorist attack, or to obtain an early sign of environmental pollution it is important
to use simple and rapid assays able to detect analytes at low levels, possibly on-site. This is particularly true for TNT
(2,4,6-trinitrotoluene), one of the most employed explosives in the 20th century and at the same time, because of its toxicity,
a well known pollutant. In this work we describe the development of an indirect competitive ELISA with chemiluminescent detection
(CL-ELISA) and of a lateral-flow immunoassay (LFIA) based on colloidal gold nanoparticle labels. A commercially available
monoclonal antibody was used and 13 specially synthesized conjugates were tested. We optimized the assay by determining the
optimal concentration of monoclonal antibody and conjugates and the influence of various non-specific factors such as: tolerance
to organic solvents at different concentrations, the washing and competitive step time, and the cross-reactivity with related
compounds. The sensitivity and reproducibility of the CL-ELISA were good (LOD and IC50 values in the ng mL−1 range, and CV value about 7%). It has been applied to real samples of various materials involved in a controlled explosion
of an “improvised explosive device”. Three extraction procedures were tested on these samples, all employing methanol as the
solvent. The lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA), developed by using the same immunoreagents, reached a detection limit of 1 μg mL−1 when tested on the same samples analysed by CL-ELISA.
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