BACKGROUND: ZAP-70 protein expression has been proposed as a marker for immunoglobulin heavy chain mutational status, which some studies have correlated with disease course in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Studies published to date measuring levels of expression of ZAP-70 intracellular protein using flow cytometry have demonstrated poor performance, as defined by the difference in signal in known positive and negative lymphocyte populations. METHODS: A recently published method (Chow S, Hedley DW, Grom P, Magari R, Jacobberger JW, Shankey TV, Cytometry A 2005;67:4-17) to measure intracellular phospho-epitopes was optimized using a design of experiments (DOE) approach to provide the best separation of ZAP-70 expression in positive T- or NK-cells as compared to negative B-cells in peripheral blood samples. A number of commercially available anti-ZAP-70 antibody-conjugates were screened using this methodology, and the antibody-conjugate showing the best performance was chosen to develop a four-color, five antibody assays to measure ZAP-70 levels in whole blood specimens. RESULTS: Using the optimized fixation and permeabilization method, improvement in assay performance (signal-to-noise, S/N) was seen in most of the antibodies tested. The custom SBZAP conjugate gave the best S/N when used in conjunction with this optimized fixation /permeabilization method. In conjunction with carefully standardized instrument set-up protocols, we obtained both intra- and interlaboratory reproducibility in the analysis of ZAP-70 expression in whole blood samples from normal and CLL patients. CONCLUSIONS: The development of a sensitive, specific and highly reproducible ZAP-70 assay represents only the first essential step for any clinical assay. The universal implementation of a validated data analysis method and the establishment of methodology-based cutoff points for clinical outcomes must next be established before ZAP-70 protein analysis can be routinely implemented in the clinical laboratory. (c) 2006 International Society for Analytical Cytology.
BACKGROUND:ZAP-70 protein expression has been proposed as a marker for immunoglobulin heavy chain mutational status, which some studies have correlated with disease course in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Studies published to date measuring levels of expression of ZAP-70 intracellular protein using flow cytometry have demonstrated poor performance, as defined by the difference in signal in known positive and negative lymphocyte populations. METHODS: A recently published method (Chow S, Hedley DW, Grom P, Magari R, Jacobberger JW, Shankey TV, Cytometry A 2005;67:4-17) to measure intracellular phospho-epitopes was optimized using a design of experiments (DOE) approach to provide the best separation of ZAP-70 expression in positive T- or NK-cells as compared to negative B-cells in peripheral blood samples. A number of commercially available anti-ZAP-70 antibody-conjugates were screened using this methodology, and the antibody-conjugate showing the best performance was chosen to develop a four-color, five antibody assays to measure ZAP-70 levels in whole blood specimens. RESULTS: Using the optimized fixation and permeabilization method, improvement in assay performance (signal-to-noise, S/N) was seen in most of the antibodies tested. The custom SBZAP conjugate gave the best S/N when used in conjunction with this optimized fixation /permeabilization method. In conjunction with carefully standardized instrument set-up protocols, we obtained both intra- and interlaboratory reproducibility in the analysis of ZAP-70 expression in whole blood samples from normal and CLLpatients. CONCLUSIONS: The development of a sensitive, specific and highly reproducible ZAP-70 assay represents only the first essential step for any clinical assay. The universal implementation of a validated data analysis method and the establishment of methodology-based cutoff points for clinical outcomes must next be established before ZAP-70 protein analysis can be routinely implemented in the clinical laboratory. (c) 2006 International Society for Analytical Cytology.
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