Porvair Filtration has developed Chromatrap, a sensitive and specific chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay kit for the epigenetics market.
The ChIP assay kit will be highlighted at the Epigenetics World Congress in Boston in April 2011.
ChIP is the key experimental technique used to investigate the interaction between proteins and DNA in the cell.
It aims to determine whether specific proteins are associated with specific genomic regions.
ChIP is a core enabling technique that is being adopted in the growing field of epigenetics.
Using a new approach based on a rigid porous polymer matrix rather than the traditional sepharose or magnetic beads, Porvair has developed Chromatrap.
Results from third-party trials demonstrate that Chromatrap is able to routinely deliver greater ChIP specificity, higher ChIP sensitivity and faster separations than traditional sepharose or magnetic bead approaches.
