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EPOCH Microplate Spectrophotometers 2012.Sep. BioTeks product - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
EPOCH Microplate Spectrophotometers 2012.Sep. BioTeks product - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
EPOCH Microplate Spectrophotometers 2012.Sep. BioTeks product range: microplate instrumentation Washers Dispensers Pipetors Automation Absorbance Fluorescence Luminescence Multi-detection Monochromator Optical System Data
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Xenon Flash Lamp Order Sorting Filters Diffraction Grating
Lens Photodiode Microplate
Data
Monochromator Optical System
Optical fibers
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100 250 500 750 1100
Xenon Flash Lamp
- Continuous spectrum – 200~999 nm
- Long life – 1 billion flashes
- No warm-up required
Key Specifications – UV-Visble Spectrophotometer
Monochromator
- No filters
- Continuous wavelength selection
- Spectral scans
Single channel optics Detector- Photodiode
Relative Energy Wavelength 100 250 500 750 1100
Xe Tg
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Enhanced Reading Mode
Plate
8 Flashes OD Measured 0.923
If less than 2.0 OD then on to next sample
8 Flashes OD Measured 2.700
If Greater than 2.0 OD then 64 more flashes, then on to next sample
64 Flashes OD Measured 2.678 8 Flashes OD Measured 0.675 8 Flashes OD Measured 1.234
WHY ?
ERROR 1 OPTICAL DENSITY 2 3 4
± 1% ± 0.005 NON ENHANCED ENHANCED
Ensures the highest quality readings
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Microplates (model dependent)
- Microplates up to 20.3 mm in height
– 6-well – 12-well – 24-well – 48-well – 96-well – 384-well
- Terasaki trays
– 60-well – 72-well – 96-well
- Up to 8 Bio-Cells for 1 cm readings
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Utilizes Bio-cell 1.0 cm Quartz Cuvette for Vertical Photometery 1cm Adapter Plate for Bio-Tek Microplate readers
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Major Applications
- Molecular Biology
- Protein Quantitation
- ELISA
- Cell Viability/Cytotoxicity
- Miscellaneous
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Molecular Biology
- Nucleic Acid Quantitation
- DNA
- RNA
- Oligonucleotides
- Nucleic Acid Quality Control
- 260/280 Ratio (protein)
- 260/240 (EDTA)
- 260/270 (phenol)
- 320 (particulates)
** UV Plate
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Nucleic Acid Quantitation
- Direct Quantitation : 280 nm (DNA Concentration = OD x 50)
- Colorimetric Assays
- Burton Method
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Pathlength Correction
Horizontal Photometry Light Source Detector Absorbing solution Vessel
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- Beer-Lambert Equation:
O.D. = (ε) x (Concentration) x (pathlength)
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Protein Quantitation
- 1. Direct quantitation: 280 nm
- 2. Colorimetric:
– Lowry method: 660 nm – Bradford method: 595 nm – BCA method: 562 nm
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ELISA
Antibody Enzyme labelled antibody Sample antigen
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ELISA
- Horseradish peroxidase
- OPD 450 nm & 492 nm
- TMB 650 nm & 450 nm
- ABTS 414 nm
- Alkaline phosphatase
- pnpp 405 nm
- β-Galactosidase
- ONPG 420 nm
- Urease
- urea bromocresol 588 nm
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Cell-based assays
Cell viability/cytotoxicity
- MTT
570 nm
- XTT
492 nm
- WST-1
450 nm
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Spectral scanning
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Software Control
- All control via USB port
- Gen5 software
– Operating system of choice – Included with instrument – Increased flexibility – Robotic applications
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