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Simplified and Enhanced Antibody, Protein and Oligonucleotide Conjugation

11 Jan 2013
Simplified and Enhanced Antibody, Protein and Oligonucleotide Conjugation

Watch this video to learn about the innovative bioconjugation technologies available from Innova Biosciences. Tom Speedy tells SelectScience about Lightning-Link®, an innovative technology that enables direct labeling of proteins, peptides and other biomolecules for use in R&D applications, drug discovery and the development of diagnostic kits. In addition Tom discusses the new InnovaCoat® GOLD nanoparticles which greatly enhance colloidal stability, and the oligoconjugation services that are currently available. Interview filmed by SelectScience at ASCB 2012.

About the company

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Innova Biosciences Ltd.

Innova Biosciences Ltd's core business is bioconjugation: the joining of two molecules to form hybrid conjugates

Conjugates are used in hospital and research labs around the world; they also feature in consumer items such as pregnancy test kits (the conjugate is responsible for the blue line). Innova's one-step conjugation method (Lightning-Link) massively simplifies the production of conjugates that are needed for research and immunodiagnostic applications. Innova also offers exclusive services for optimizing the performance of conjugates and developing more sensitive immunodiagnostic tests. Innova also sells several niche products to pharmaceutical research and development labs.

Innova aims to deliver ground-breaking technologies and services that will greatly accelerate and simplify biological research and development. This will allow Innova to become a world leader in the supply of products and services to the academic, pharmaceutical and diagnostics sectors.

Innova's research laboratories opened in October 2002 at the Babraham Bioincubator facility, close to the historic University City of Cambridge, UK. The company was awarded a research grant In 2003 to develop a number of novel research products primarily for applications in the pharmaceutical sector. In 2006, in response to frustration with traditional conjugation technologies, particularly difficulties in working with small amounts of material and in scaling up, Innova developed and launched its revolutionary Lightning-Link conjugation system. This dramatically changed the direction of the company's development and today bioconjugation is our core business. Innova sells innovative conjugation products are services throughout the Life Science sector, especially into flow cytometry and diagnostics laboratories.

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Innova Biosciences - Conjugation Services

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Innova Biosciences – Antibody Conjugation Service Bio-conjugates can be challenging to optimise and time consuming to produce: 1. Too much conjugation may result in the target protein becoming inactive and insoluble. 2. Too little conjugation can result in weak signals. 3. Our competitors require milligrams of your precious material and have a 2 week process time. Fast & FAb™ Antibody Conjugation Service – Innova Biosciences take the hassle, time and effort out of making antibody conjugates. Using state of the art conjugation chemistry, Innova Biosciences have the ability to label microgram to milligram amounts of your antibody within 48 hours. Conjugate optimization (Micro-optimizer™) - Innova Biosciences uses its proprietary technologies to enhance the performance of conjugates. By creating an array of trial conjugates (10 formulations per label) at low microgram scale (10µg per formulation) combined with selection in the assay of interest, the best possible conjugate can be attained. PerfectSCALE™ - All conjugates produced using our micro-optimization™ technology can be scaled over many orders of magnitude without the need for extensive re-development of the process. The inherent simplicity of Innova’s technology means that exceptionally high yields are obtained, with minimal batch-to-batch variation, ensuring consistent performance.

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Lightning-Link™ Alkaline Phosphatase (AP) kit

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Say goodbye to secondary antibodies – Go direct using the World’s Easiest DIY Antibody Labeling Kit - Lightning-Link™! • Eliminates need for secondary antibodies • Reduces the number of wash steps • Ideal for multi-protein analysis – with over 40 available labels • Very easy to use • 100% antibody recovery Lightning-Link™ kits The DIY Lightning-Link™ kit allows you to label an antibody with minimal hands-on time - less than 30 seconds. Simply add your antibody solution to a tube of Lightning-Link™ mix and the label becomes covalently attached to your antibody in a gentle controlled process. Go ‘direct’ Direct antibody labelling greatly simplifies immunodetection techniques. Without the problems of crossover and/or non-specific binding from secondary reagents it is far easier to obtain high quality, pioneering results in techniques such as flow cytometry, ELISA, Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. A reduction in the number of incubation and wash steps also saves you time and money. Alkaline phosphatase (AP) is a hydrolyase enzyme that is frequently used in antibody conjugation for immunoassays. AP has a lower catalytic rate than HRP, but has greater stability and maintains linear reaction kinetics for much longer. PNPP is a popular colorimetric substrate for AP; the product of the reaction, p-nitrophenol, can be read at 405nM. Fluorogenic substrates (e.g. 4-methylumbelliferyl phosphate; MUP) may also be employed.

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Lightning-Link™ Strepavidin kit

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Say goodbye to secondary antibodies – Go direct using the World’s Easiest DIY Antibody Labeling Kit - Lightning-Link™! • Eliminates need for secondary antibodies • Reduces the number of wash steps • Ideal for multi-protein analysis – with over 40 available labels • Very easy to use • 100% antibody recovery Lightning-Link™ kits The DIY Lightning-Link™ kit allows you to label an antibody with minimal hands-on time - less than 30 seconds. Simply add your antibody solution to a tube of Lightning-Link™ mix and the label becomes covalently attached to your antibody in a gentle controlled process. Lightning-Link is the easiest and quickest method available for antibody conjugation.Go ‘direct’ Direct antibodies labelling greatly simplifies immunodetection techniques. Without the problems of crossover and/or non-specific binding from secondary reagents it is far easier to obtain high quality, pioneering results in techniques such as flow cytometry, ELISA, Western blotting and immunohistochemistry. A reduction in the number of incubation and wash steps also saves you time and money. The antibody conjugate: Streptavidin is a 53kDa protein purified from Streptomyces avidinii, which has widespread applications in biotechnology due to its very high affinity to the vitamin biotin. Streptavidin is a tetrameric molecule, composed of 4 13kDa monomers, each of which can bind a molecule of biotin.

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