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Plug Maker
Accelerate your research with micro capillary Protein Crystallization System™.
Overview
Plug Maker
The micro capillary Protein Crystallization System™, also known as the Plug Maker™, is a cutting-edge protein crystallization workstation. It was designed to help scientists obtain crystals using as little as 1 nL of protein per experiment. This system allows for high-throughput, batch-type crystallization within microfluidic CrystalCards™. Consequently, this approach makes it easy to screen Crystal conditions or study X-ray diffraction.
With the ability to screen, optimize, and produce diffraction-ready crystals, scientists can generate up to 600 individual experiments per CrystalCard using only about 1 µL of protein. Each CrystalCard can be used with up to 24 different conditions at varying concentrations, allowing end users to significantly increase the chances of obtaining high-quality crystals.
Micro Capillary Protein Crystallization System
The Plug Maker enables the use of microfluidic CrystalCards in a plug-based nano-volume protein crystallization system, optimizing the growth of protein crystals. Furthermore, this system also facilitates the storage infectious disease protein targets.
Grow crystals in durable, x-ray transmissive microfluidic CrystalCards. Visualize crystallization sweet spots, transport crystals, or store them for months in these innovative cards. Easily remove crystals for traditional cryoprotection and x-ray diffraction studies. Alternatively, you can test crystals for x-ray diffraction inside the microfluidic CrystalCards using a simple goniometer adapter. Enhance your protein crystallization system with our Plug Maker to streamline the process further.
These images showcase actual crystals that were grown inside microfluidic CrystalCards, along with the corresponding X-ray locations that emerged from our advanced protein crystallization system and Plug Maker.
Each micro-holder CrystalCard combines protein, precipitant, and buffer to screen protein crystallization conditions, thus facilitating both high-throughput crystallization experiments and gradient screening crystallization experiments.