Phospholipid Flashplate Plus

Boston, MA -- NEN Life Science Products has introduced an ultra-efficient new platform for high-throughput radiometric enzyme assays with lipid-associated substrates. The patented Phospholipid FlashPlate" PLUS offering is far easier to use and more cost-effective than traditional assays where organic extraction is required, and provides more reproducible and dependable results.

The new Phospholipid FlashPlate PLUS is a scintillant-coated, 96-well microplate which uses patented technology to enable the attachment of lipid substrates to the FlashPlate surface, providing a biologically natural environment for the substrate to bind. This allows for the quantitative and qualitative determination of the activity of various enzymes that act on membrane-bound substrates, without the need for organic extraction.

According to Leda Haehnel, NENÆs Product Manager HTS, "The unique Phospholipid FlashPlate PLUS platform is easy to use, and cost effective. It requires no extraction step, as is typical with traditional lipid enzyme assays. In other solution-based methods, extraction must be done to measure the radiolabel, which is not practical

NEN Life Science Products, Inc., 549 Albany Street, Boston, MA 02118-2512. Tel: 617-482-9595; Fax: 617-482-1380.