Kinase Activity Assay


Are you looking for thorough solutions for your questions regarding the role of kinases in your research? Measuring kinase activity using our unique multiplex assay provides deeper understanding of cellular signaling and target interaction.

Kinase Activity Assay


Are you looking for thorough solutions for your questions regarding the role of kinases in your research? Measuring kinase activity using our unique multiplex assay provides deeper understanding of cellular signaling and target interaction.

Multiplex kinase activity assay

Building on 15 years of experience, PamGene has developed a unique technology with unprecedented sensitivity, making real-time measurement and understanding of kinase activity possible. The multiplex properties of our chip enable us to look at the bigger picture of cellular signaling. It makes you see the activity changes in pathways, and allows the generation of a kinase-based response biomarker, biochemical identification and kinase inhibitor selectivity profiling a.o.

As fellow scientists we are eager to learn about your challenges. We’re happy to schedule an online meeting to see how our approach can benefit your research.

Multiplex kinase activity assay

Building on 15 years of experience, PamGene has developed a unique technology with unprecedented sensitivity, making real-time measurement and understanding of kinase activity possible. The multiplex properties of our chip enable us to look at the bigger picture of cellular signaling. It makes you see the activity changes in pathways, and allows the generation of a kinase-based response biomarker, biochemical identification and kinase inhibitor selectivity profiling a.o.

As fellow scientists we are eager to learn about your challenges. We’re happy to schedule an online meeting to see how our approach can benefit your research.

Using our assay

PamGene’s technology can be implemented in your study in multiple ways:

  • Contract Research Services – Together with you tailored to your needs and research questions. After an intake-meeting PamGene will develop an experimental design for your study. Once your samples have been received they are analyzed in our facility by our specialists. The results are interpreted and presented to you by our PhD-level support specialists.
  • In-house PamStation – Specifically interesting for multi-therapeutic department organizations, like universities and research institutes. A PamStation is installed on-site and scientists are trained to perform in-house assay analysis.

The benefits our technology brings

  • Kinase activity-based – Direct inhibitor effects on kinases can be measured
  • Sensitive – Only small amounts of protein input (0.5 to 5 μg per array) are required, thus making the assay more sensitive than alternative approaches e.g. MS-based phosphoproteomics.
  • Unbiased – Unlike antibody-based approaches, prior knowledge of involved kinases and targets is not required as we cover a total of 340 phosphosites.
  • No specific antibodies – The quality of the data is not dependent on the specificity of phospho-antibodies.
  • Full-length kinases – We measure kinase activity of full-length proteins from lysates of several cell lines and tissues. This is not offered by other recombinant-based kinase activity assays.

Using our assay

PamGene’s technology can be implemented in your study in multiple ways:

  • Contract Research Services – Together with you tailored to your needs and research questions. After an intake-meeting PamGene will develop an experimental design for your study. Once your samples have been received they are analyzed in our facility by our specialists. The results are interpreted and presented to you by our PhD-level support specialists.
  • In-house PamStation – Specifically interesting for multi-therapeutic department organizations, like universities and research institutes. A PamStation is installed on-site and scientists are trained to perform in-house assay analysis.

Our technology

 

Kinases are the most intensively studied protein targets. We have developed a unique method to understand them. Our sensitive platform uses lysates obtained from only a few thousand cells or small amounts (2ug) of animal, xenografts or human tissues and cells to simultaneously determine the activity of all kinases present in these lysates.

This is accomplished by incubating the lysates across 196 to 144 tyrosine or serine/threonine kinase peptide substrates immobilized on the PamChip® microarray platform. Our 3D microarrays are spotted with peptides (i.e. phosphosites) that represent kinase targets. Kinases present in the lysates will phosphorylate the peptide substrates which are detected using fluorescently labelled antibodies. The phosphosites on the PamChips are human-derived and there is significant overlap with other organisms.

Based on current online knowledge, we compiled a comprehensive, integrated database (DB) of potential kinases that are linked to the peptides on the PamChips. This corresponds to ~350 unique kinases in literature, covering the majority of the kinome.

Our technology

 

Kinases are the most intensively studied protein targets. We have developed a unique method to understand them. Our sensitive platform uses lysates obtained from only a few thousand cells or small amounts (2ug) of animal, xenografts or human tissues and cells to simultaneously determine the activity of all kinases present in these lysates.

This is accomplished by incubating the lysates across 196 to 144 tyrosine or serine/threonine kinase peptide substrates immobilized on the PamChip® microarray platform. Our 3D microarrays are spotted with peptides (i.e. phosphosites) that represent kinase targets. Kinases present in the lysates will phosphorylate the peptide substrates which are detected using fluorescently labelled antibodies. The phosphosites on the PamChips are human-derived and there is significant overlap with other organisms.

Based on current online knowledge, we compiled a comprehensive, integrated database (DB) of potential kinases that are linked to the peptides on the PamChips. This corresponds to ~350 unique kinases in literature, covering the majority of the kinome.