Our Equipment
Our facility is equipped with a wide range of instruments.
Mass Spectrometry
We are equipped with:
- Bruker Rapiflex (MALDI)
- Thermo QExactive HF
- Sciex 6600 QToF (intact protein)
- Thermo Exploris 240 (ICMS)
- Sciex 5600 QToF (metabolomics)
- Thermo Fusion Lumos
- Bruker timsTOF HT
- Thermo Exploris 480
Protein Purification
We are equipped with:
- AKTA purification system
- Sorvall RC6+ and Evolution floor standing centrifuges
- Shimadzu UV-1800 spectrophotometer
- Purification matrices, Affinity chromatography:
- PROBOND
- IMAC
- Ion exchange chromatography:
- DEAE Sephacel, Q Sepharose
- SP Sepharose
- Size exclusion chromatography:
- Sephacryl S300
- Hydrophobic interaction chromatography:
- Phenyl Sepharose
- Hydroxyapatite chromatography
Molecular Biophysics
We are equipped with:
- Beckman ProteomeLab XLA-XLI analytical ultracentrifuge (equipped with absorbance and interference detection)
- Microcal VC-ITC
- Microcal VC-DSC
- Sciex 6600 QToF Mass Spectrometer (intact protein)
We also have access to instruments which complement our expertise in the following techniques:
- Surface plasmon resonance (Biacore S-200)
- Small-angle X-ray scattering instruments (Diamond synchrotron)
- Small angle neutron scattering (RAL)
- Fourrier-transform infra-red spectroscopy (Perkin Elmer)
- Circular dichroism spectroscopy