Surface plasmon resonance system for life sciences applications SPRi-Arrayer

SPRi-Arrayer is an automatic, compact and portable apparatus. It prints DNA, oligonucleotides, proteins, bacterial clones and other materials with low cross contamination using Xtend metal-ceramic capillary pins. SPRi-Arrayer includes microarray design software and is integrated with microarray image processing and data analysis tools. Benchtop SPRi-Arrayer for printing microarrays of biological samples on glass, gold surfaces, or on membrane substrates. Easy to start Fast and versatile Prints onto SPRi-Biochip™, SPRi-Slides or any other standard slides Prints up to 400 (20x20) samples on SPRi-Slides or SPRi-Biochip™ Spot size : from 140 to 500 µm, depending on matrix size SPECIFICATIONS Print Method: Contact printing Number of printing needles: 1-16 in various patterns Slide capacity: 14 slides SPRi-Biochip™ capacity: 8 biochips SPRi-Slide capacity: 8 slides Slide locks: Independent unit Needle cleaning technology: Fluid stream washing, vacuum drying APPLICATIONS Validation of the activity of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) using SPRi Real time detection of lymphocytes with SPRi SPRi Imaging of oligosaccharides proteins interactions The majority of proteins are glycosylated: they possess oligosaccharide chains and are hence termed glycoproteins. Oligosaccharides, also called carbohydrate or sugar, are often quite large (as large as some protein domains for example) and they have many functions in molecular interactions. Description of the advantages of combining the use of peptide chips with direct label-free detection as achieved by SPR imaging (SPRi).