Established in 1973, AltaBioscience provides analytical laboratory services in addition to custom peptide synthesis, DNA oligos and both polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies. Our testing services include amino acid analysis, protein sequencing and other mass spec analytical techniques.
The company serves an international client base that includes academic, pharmaceutical, healthcare and food industry related customers. AltaBioscience manufactures and distributes all specialist biochemical products from its UK based ISO 9001:2015 laboratory and performs protein sequencing and amino acid analysis accredited to ISO 17025:2017 standard.
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Polyclonal antibody generation
The standard inoculation procedure for a polyclonal antibody in a rabbit involves six immunisations at two-week intervals and three bleeds (with an additional pre-immune bleed). Read more about the generation process.
Monoclonal antibody generation
Our monoclonal process is identified by five phases. A typical monoclonal antibody project may yield up to 10 positive wells at the fusion screening stage and, after cloning, can deliver two or three stable monoclonal antibodies. Read more about the process and project steps.
Histone peptides and microarrays
AltaBioscience stock a selection of individual histone peptides and 5 different histone peptide sets. The peptide sequences are derived from human histones H2A, H2B, H3 and H4 and include a range of modified amino acids.