Developing and validating an immunoassay can be complex due to the sensitivity, specificity, and precision required to enable highly reproducible assays. Time can often work against research groups developing these critical assays.

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How have Dynabeads Plus helped immunoassay development?

Dynabeads Plus team enhanced the sample preparation process for an Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic.


Dynabeads immunodiagnostic product benefits include

  • High capacity & wide dynamic range
  • High signal-to-noise ratio
  • Adaptable to any known detection method & assay methodology
  • Efficient & reproducible ligand immobilization
  • Easy assay development
  • Direct or indirect capture approach
  • No magnetic remanence
  • Excellent kinetics & shorter assay times
  • Reproducible automated behavior
  • Fast and efficient washing
  • Increased sensitivity
  • Long reagent stability on the immunoassay analyzer
  • Easy handling in manufacturing and shortened assay development time

Assay Lifecyle Support

Business support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols

Enterprise support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale
  • Collaboration and innovation with high quality products

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols
  • Bead material for robustness testing
  • Borderline bead material
  • Flexible supply volumes
  • Customized products
  • Short-term licensing and commercial supply quote agreements
  • Basic Quality Assurance Agreement (QAA)

Technical support

  • Technical support
  • Custom projects
  • Seminars
  • Assay automation support
  • Instrument supplier partnerships

Enterprise support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale
  • Further investigations with selected product
  • Assay validation support
  • Joint development sessions to improve processes between our companies

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols
  • Borderline material
  • Flexible volumes
  • Customized products
  • Bead material from multiple batches for assay validation
  • Supply security through long-term commercial supply agreement (CSA)
  • Full Quality Assurance Agreement (QAA)

Technical support

  • Technical support
  • Custom projects
  • Seminars
  • Assay automation support
  • Instrument supplier partnerships

Enterprise support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale
  • Further investigations with selected product
  • Assay validation support
  • Joint development sessions to improve processes between our companies
  • High supply security of the material you need in your regular manufacturing
  • Manufacturing scale up support
  • Joint business reviews and logistics planning

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols
  • Borderline material
  • Flexible volumes
  • Customized products
  • Bead material from multiple batches for assay validation
  • Supply security through long-term commercial supply agreement (CSA)
  • Full Quality Assurance Agreement (QAA)
  • High supply security
  • Very low batch to batch variation

Technical support

  • Technical support
  • Custom projects
  • Seminars
  • Assay automation support 
  • Instrument supplier partnerships

Business support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols

Enterprise support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale
  • Collaboration and innovation with high quality products

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols
  • Bead material for robustness testing
  • Borderline bead material
  • Flexible supply volumes
  • Customized products
  • Short-term licensing and commercial supply quote agreements
  • Basic Quality Assurance Agreement (QAA)

Technical support

  • Technical support
  • Custom projects
  • Seminars
  • Assay automation support
  • Instrument supplier partnerships

Enterprise support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale
  • Further investigations with selected product
  • Assay validation support
  • Joint development sessions to improve processes between our companies

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols
  • Borderline material
  • Flexible volumes
  • Customized products
  • Bead material from multiple batches for assay validation
  • Supply security through long-term commercial supply agreement (CSA)
  • Full Quality Assurance Agreement (QAA)

Technical support

  • Technical support
  • Custom projects
  • Seminars
  • Assay automation support
  • Instrument supplier partnerships

Enterprise support

  • Evaluation of multiple products at small-scale
  • Further investigations with selected product
  • Assay validation support
  • Joint development sessions to improve processes between our companies
  • High supply security of the material you need in your regular manufacturing
  • Manufacturing scale up support
  • Joint business reviews and logistics planning

Product support

  • Samples of different bead types
  • Samples coupled with antibody/antigen for rapid screening
  • Customized protocols
  • Borderline material
  • Flexible volumes
  • Customized products
  • Bead material from multiple batches for assay validation
  • Supply security through long-term commercial supply agreement (CSA)
  • Full Quality Assurance Agreement (QAA)
  • High supply security
  • Very low batch to batch variation

Technical support

  • Technical support
  • Custom projects
  • Seminars
  • Assay automation support 
  • Instrument supplier partnerships

ProductCharacteristicsSelected applications
Dynabeads
M-270
Epoxy
  • Hydrophilic bead surface coating with low non-specific protein binding
  • Freeze dried monosized beads; easy to disperse in buffer before use
  • Size: 2.8 micrometer
  • Active epoxy groups for direct covalent coupling to antibodies, antigens or other biomolecules; no further surface activation required
  • Low aggregation
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Immunoprecipitation
Dynabeads
MyOne
Epoxy
  • Bead surface chemistry optimized for enhanced binding capacity and low non-specific binding
  • Freeze dried monosized beads, easy to disperse in buffer before use
  • Size: 1 micrometer
  • Low sedimentation rate and higher reaction kinetics compared to M-270 beads
  • Active epoxy groups for direct covalent coupling to antibodies, antigens or other biomolecules; no further surface activation required
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Immunoprecipitation
Dynabeads MyOne 
Tosylactivated
  • Hydrophobic bead surface
  • Size: 1 micrometer, monodisperse
  • Iron content (ferrites): 26% (37%)
  • Low sedimentation rate and improved reaction kinetics compared to M-280/M-270 beads
  • Active chemical functionality: 0.04-0.06 mmol/g beads
  • Direct covalent binding of proteins/peptides via primary amino- or sulfydryl groups; no further surface activation required
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Phage display and biopanning
  • Cell separation
Dynabeads 
M-280
Tosylactivated
  • Hydrophobic bead surface with p-toluene-sulfonyl (tosyl) groups
  • Size: 2.8 micrometer, monodisperse
  • Iron content (ferrites): 12% (17%)
  • Active chemical functionality: 0.1-0.2 mmol/g beads
  • Direct covalent binding of proteins/peptides via primary amino- or sulfydryl groups; no further surface activation required
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Phage display and biopanning
  • Cell separation

 

Dynabeads MyOne 
Streptavidin T1
  • Hydrophobic bead surface
  • Based on tosylactivated beads (T1)
  • Size: 1 micrometer, monodisperse
  • BSA as blocking protein
  • Isoelectric point: pH 5.0
  • Low charge (-10 mV, at pH 7)
  • Iron content (ferrites): 26% (37%)
  • Low sedimentation rate and improved reaction kinetics compared to M-280/M-270 beads
  • Free biotin binding: > 1,100-1,700 pmoles/mg beads
  • Binding biotinylated Ig: 40-50 µg/mg beads

 

  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Isolation of biotinylated molecules
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Phage display and biopanning
  • Cell separation

 

Dynabeads 
M-280
Streptavidin

  • Hydrophobic bead surface
  • Based on tosylactivated beads
  • Size: 2.8 micrometer, monodisperse
  • BSA as blocking protein
  • Isoelectric point: pH 5.0
  • Low charge (-10 mV, at pH 7)
  • Iron content (ferrites): 12% (17%)
  • Free biotin binding: 650-900 pmoles/mg beads
  • Binding biotinylated Ig: 5-10 µg/mg beads
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Isolation of biotinylated molecules
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Phage display and biopanning
  • Cell isolation
Dynabeads 
M-280
Sheep
anti-Rabbit IgG
  • Hydrophobic bead surface
  • Coated with affinity purified sheep polyclonal against all rabbit IgG subclasses
  • Size: 2.8 micrometer, monodisperse
  • Iron content (ferrites): 12% (17%)
  • Mostly Fc reactive
  • Binding capacity: 0.1-1 µg Ig/107 beads

 

  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Protein and peptide purification
  • Phage display and biopanning
  • Cell isolation
Dynabeads 
M-270
Streptavidin
  • Hydrophilic bead surface
  • Based on carboxylic acid beads
  • Size: 2.8 micrometer, monodisperse
  • No blocking proteins used
  • Isoelectric point: pH 4.5
  • Highly charged (-50 mV, at pH 7)
  • Iron content (ferrites): 14% (20%)
  • Low aggregation of beads in high salt solutions
  • Free biotin binding: 650-1,350 pmoles/mg beads
  • Binding biotinylated Ig: 5-10 µg/mg beads

 

  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics with hydrophobic targets
  • Isolation of biotinylated molecules
  • Sequence specific DNA/RNA capture in nucleic acid based diagnostics
  • For use in protocols that require GTC lysis or high salt concentrations, or protocols not compatible with BSA.

 

Dynabeads 
M-270
Carboxylic Acid
  • Hydrophilic bead surface with carboxylic acid groups
  • Size: 2.8 micrometer, monodisperse
  • Iron content (ferrites): 14% (20%)
  • Very low aggregation
  • Active chemical functionality 150 µmol/g beads
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Sequence specific DNA/RNA capture in nucleic acid based diagnostics
  • Immobilization of amino-modified oligonucleotides, antibodies or other ligands, for capture of specific DNA/RNA sequences, proteins or any other analyte

Dynabeads 
MyOne 
Streptavidin C1

 


  • Hydrophilic bead surface
  • Based on carboxylic acid beads (C1)
  • Size: 1 micrometer, monodisperse
  • No blocking proteins used
  • Tween 20 in the buffer
  • Isoelectric point: pH 5.2
  • Medium charged (-35 mV, at pH 7)
  • Iron content (ferrites): 26% (37%)
  • Low sedimentation rate and improved reaction kinetics compared to M-280/M-270 beads
  • Very low aggregation
  • Free biotin binding: > 2,500 pmoles/mg beads
  • Binding biotinylated Ig: 20-25 µg/mg beads
  • Immunoassays and immunodiagnostics
  • Isolation of biotinylated molecules
  • Sample preparation of proteins for mass spectrometry
  • Sequence specific DNA/RNA capture in nucleic acid based diagnostics

Benefits of partnership

There’s a reason Thermo Fisher Scientific already works with some of the world’s leading diagnostic companies.

Premium products: All Dynabeads products are validated with a unique level of reproducibility within and between batches. Patented manufacturing processes ensure careful control of bead parameters and product properties, securing their performance.

Unrivaled bead manufacturing: World-class manufacturing facilities can manufacture batches ranging in size from 1 g up to 2 kg with close to zero off-grade batches and flexible production scales. Meets relevant regulatory and quality systems compliance.

Comprehensive technical support: Extensive proprietary knowledge enables customized product development, decreases quality control costs, and increases manufacturing efficiency. Hands-on support from R&D scientists.

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