Recombinant CYPs are commonly used in ADME-Tox studies as in vitro tools, mostly for reaction phenotyping, enzyme inhibition screening, clearance and metabolite ID.

“Research has shown that rCYPs expressed in E. coli (Bactosomes) showed greater enzymatic activity compared with the equivalent enzymes expressed in insect cells (Supersomes). Similarly, most Bactosomes show greater turnover numbers when compared with the equivalent Supersomes. These results demonstrate that human rCYPs expressed in E. coli are frequently more active than the corresponding rCYPs expressed in insect cells» says Michael Voice from CYPEX.

How do you detect 300 specific glycan binding proteins in one experiment? Well, in this post we’ll answer this question by introducing the new Glycan Array, developed by RayBiotech for your cell signalling studies.

Recently, BPS Bioscience have released a new Adenosine A2A Receptor (A2AR / ADORA2A) Functional Recombinant Cell Line for screening A2AR agonists and antagonists. An excellent means to efficiently evaluate the Adenosine cell signaling pathway known to be deeply involved in all phases of inflammation and immune responses with potential interest in immunotherapies.

Due to its involvement in many cellular processes such as normal ageing, tumor suppression, chronic diseases and many more, cellular senescence has gained increasing attention since its first description over 50 years ago. In addition, understanding of cellular senescence is invaluable in the development of therapeutic targets in the fight against age-related co-morbidities, cancer and chronic disease progression.

Over-expressed in senescent cells, Senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-β-gal), has been widely used as a marker of cellular senescence. In order to specifically detect this biomarker directly in living cells or tissues, let’s take a look at an easy and ready-to-use assay recently developed: the SPiDER-βGal- Cellular Senescence Detection kit.