Sidekick Biosensor Immobilization Station The Sidekick station enables simultaneous and uniform reagent loading onto all 96 biosensors in a biosensor tray. Target analyte and other reagents that do not require online signal monitoring can be loaded onto biosensors on the Sidekick, freeing the Octet^® instrument for other users. This accessory to ForteBio’s Octet family of instruments can be installed beside an Octet system and used in collaboration with it, or can be used independently.

Key Features

Offline loading of reagents on biosensors
Simultaneous loading on up to 96 biosensors
Automation compatibility
Small and portable
Ideal for creating large batches of custom biosensors
Decreases incubation times; increases assay precision and sensitivity

When preparing custom biosensors, shaking the biosensors with the samples on the Sidekick station halves the required incubation time, thereby doubling the biosensor preparation productivity. Figure 1 shows the rate of binding of biotinylated protein to Streptavidin biosensors increases with shaking. Further efficiency can be obtained by using the Sidekick station in conjunction with a liquid-handling robotic workstation to automate the custom biosensor preparation. The Sidekick station enables robust, multi-step Octet sandwich assays by decreasing incubation times during sample capture and simultaneously increasing assay precision due to its unique shaking routine.


Figure 1: shows the rate of binding of biotinylated protein to Streptavidin biosensors increases with shaking.		Figure 2

For more information download the Sidekick Offline Biosensor Immobilization Station datasheet. To request a quote, please visit our Ordering page.

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