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Discover a range of recombinant monoclonal antibodies and matched antibody pairs available in carrier-free formats
Reviewed February 2, 2022
To enhance flexibility in your workflow, we've formulated over 10,000 of our antibodies and matched antibody pairs to be carrier-free, or, BSA and azide-free, making them ideal for easy antibody labeling and functional and cell-based assay development.
Standard rabbit monoclonal antibodies are typically stored in a phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) solution with carrier proteins like bovine serum albumin (BSA), and other additives such as glycerol and sodium azide.
However, these components can hinder effective conjugation to fluorochromes, metals, oligonucleotides, and enzymes, affecting experiments requiring conjugated reagents.
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Carrier-free antibodies provide a flexible, simple solution for your research needs.
Carrier-free antibodies are specifically designed for antibody labeling and are conjugation ready:
By using carrier-free antibodies, you can avoid antibody loss without the need to perform buffer exchange or concentration, saving you time with a simplified protocol. Simply add the antibody directly into the conjugation reaction.
Find out more about our comprehensive range of antibody conjugation solutions.
Our carrier-free formats are ideal for building multiplex assays with your own panel of conjugated antibodies. These technologies include flow-based assays (eg Cytometry by Time Of Flight [CyTOF®]) or multiplex IHC assays (eg Imaging Mass Cytomtery™ [IMC™], and Cyclic Immunofluorescence [CycIF]).
CyTOF® (Cytometry by Time Of Flight) is a novel flow cytometry platform that uses metal-conjugated antibodies to characterize and quantify more than 40 parameters simultaneously at the single-cell level.
Imaging Mass Cytometry™ combines the advantages of metal-conjugated antibodies and immunohistochemical/immunocytochemical methods to study cell-cell interactions at the subcellular resolution and delineate tumor heterogeneity.
Imaging Mass Cytometry™, IMC™, CyTOF® are trademarks of Fluidigm Canada Inc.
Our carrier-free pairs are conjugation-ready and ideal for non-conventional ELISA-based assays requiring different platforms.
Our carrier-free pairs are conjugation-ready and ideal for non-conventional ELISA-based assays requiring different platforms.
In addition to ELISA assays, our matched antibody pairs can be used in other assays adapted to high-throughput scale such as fluorescent proximity assays. To enable complete flexibility, we offer over 900 antibody pairs and their individual capture and detector antibodies in carrier-free and customizable formats, so you can adapt your pair to your HTS assay.
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You can easily filter our range of carrier-free reagents to view targets for your research area with our search filters:
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2. Scroll down until you see the ‘Research areas’ filter on the left-hand side
3. Choose your research area of interest from the list to find highly validated carrier-free reagents to your key targets