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  1. Diagnostic Assays & Reagents
  2. Bone and Cartilage parameters
  3. Cartilage metabolism
  4. C2C HUSA™

Produktdaten Intended use Product informations

C2C HUSA™

Produktdaten

Neoepitope (at C-terminus of 3/4 peptide) generated through cleavage of type-II collagen by collagenases

Sample preparation

Store urine samples at 4ºC for 24 hours, for longer storage store at -20°C. Frozen samples should be thawed gradually at room temperature; vortex and centrifuge or allow sedimentation for a minimum of 30 minutes.

Reference values

uC2C levels in urine vary with age.
In normal healthy individuals:
uC2C levels are very high in growing babies and children,
and decrease substantially in healthy adults.
Active exercise may increase the uC2C levels.
 

Product name C2C HUSA™
Cat-Nr. 60-1017-001
Range 156-5000 pg/ml
Incubation time 2 hours
Sample volume 30 µl
Sample type

Second Morning void urine is recommended, but spot urine samples may be used.
Species

Human
Cross reaction

No cross reactivity with corresponding neoepitope peptides derived from collagen I and collagen III is detected.
Tests 96
Method ELISA
Note

Detection limit: 70 pg/ml

Background:
Joint cartilage is composed of a type II collagen-based fibrillar network complexed to proteoglycans. Type II collagen consists of 3 identical α chains arranged in a triple helix that form fibrils.
Within this fibrillar meshwork resides the large aggregating proteoglycan aggrecan. In arthritis, type II collagen is extensively cleaved and destroyed by the activity of collagenases, which results in loss of type II collagen (Billinghurst et al., 1997).
Different collagenases, namely MMP-1, MMP-8 and MMP-13, can cleave type II collagen. Fragments containing the neoepitope created at the C terminus of the ¾ piece of type II collagen cleavage product (C2C neoepitope fragments) are recognized by the C2C antibodies which are specific to type II collagen.

The C2C HUSA™ is a colour-monitoring sandwich immunoassay that measures the C2C neoepitope fragments longer than 20 amino acids, present in human urine samples. It has been reported that a 45-mer peptide is the most abundant C2C neoepitope fragment in human urine samples (Nemirovskiy et al., 2007)

A strong correlation of increased uC2C levels with increased risks of having Osteoarthritis (OA) and/or Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
 

Intended use

  • The C2C is a specific biomarker for cartilage degradation.
  • The C2C biomarker can be used to monitor drug intervention in pre-clinical and clinical research:
    - C2C levels increase with addition of MMP enzymes
    - C2C levels are modulated with addition of MMP inhibitors
  • Increased uC2C levels appear to be predictive of ROA and pre-ROA

 

 

Product informations

C2C HUSA™ - Product Specifications (PDF 344.3 KB)

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