Gelcompany has announced that Yale University has adopted the high-performance electrophoresis (HPE) Flattop Tower System for its electrophoresis workflow.
Dr Terence Wu from Yale University's WM Keck Foundation Biotechnology Resource Laboratory will be utilising the HPE system.
Wu is a co-director of the foundation within the Yale University School of Medicine Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry Facility.
The Keck facility provides a range of protein/nucleic acid synthesis and analysis services to the university, surrounding research companies and institutions as well as globally.
Wu said he was attracted to the HPE system because of its high-performance, robust construction and relatively low operating cost.
He added that the system is easy to operate, faster in total operating time, yields higher overall spot resolution and offers improved reproducibility in 1D and 2D gel electrophoresis separations.
In 2D electrophoresis the HPE technology can detect up to 15 per cent more proteins spots because it uses thinner pre-cast gels and a more efficient cooling system with higher electric field strength.
This results in running times of around four hours and produces greater resolution and sharper bands or spots.
The HPE system uses 1D and 2D pre-cast gels in an easy-to-use Flattop Tower System with four horizontal electrophoresis platforms in one system.
The quality controlled, pre-casted HPE gels on plastic backing are laid onto the cooling plates, eliminating time-consuming vertical electrophoresis preparation of glass gel cassettes.
There is no need to technicians to handle tanks containing up to 25 litres of buffer fluid, or for time-consuming cleaning for re-use.
There is also no need to handle toxic monomer acrylamide for gel casting.
The HPE gels have a one-year shelf-life and remain stable during storage.
The equilibration buffer is also provided, meaning fewer variables than conventional electrophoresis.
