a b s t r a c tThe stereospecific binding of monoclonal antibody (mAb) 8E11 to anti-benzo(a)pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE)-dG adducts in single nucleoside, long oligonucleotide, and genomic DNA were quantitatively evaluated using noncompetitive and competitive capillary electrophoresis (CE) immunoassays. Two single-stranded TMR-BPDE-90mers containing a single anti-BPDE-dG adduct with defined stereochemistry and a fluorescent label at 5 -end were used as fluorescent probes for competitive CE immunoassay. To quantitatively evaluate the binding affinity through competitive CE immunoassays, a series of equations were derived according to the binding stoichiometry. The binding of mAb 8E11 to trans-(+)-anti-BPDE-dG displays strongest affinity (K b : 3.57 × 10 8 M −1 ) among all four investigated anti-BPDE-dG mononucleoside adducts, and the cis-(−)-anti-BPDE-dG displays lowest affinity (K b : 1.14 ×10 7 M −1 ). The binding of monoclonal antibody (mAb) 8E11 to BPDE-dG adducts in long DNA (90mer) preferentially forms the complex with a stoichiometry of 1:1, and that mAb 8E11 displays a slightly higher affinity with trans-(+)-anti-BPDE90mers (K b : 6.36 ± 0.54 × 10 8 M −1 ) than trans-(−)-anti-BPDE-90mers (K b : 4.52 ± 0.52 × 10 8 M −1 ). The mAb 8E11 also displays high affinity with BPDE-dG adducts in genomic DNA (K b : 3.74 × 10 8 M −1 ), indicating its promising applications for sensitive immuno-detection of BPDE-DNA adducts in genomic DNA.