B Cell Enrichment for Hybridoma Monoclonal Antibody Production Workflows
Akadeum’s Microbubbles offer a gentle approach to B cell enrichment that can enhance monoclonal antibody production by improving hybridoma workflows.
Akadeum’s patented Buoyancy Activated Cell Sorting (BACS™) technology can eliminate wasted time and resources by increasing the frequency of useful hybridomas that are generated.
Stop losing your precious cells to outdated processing techniques.
Akadeum’s revolutionary microbubble approach to B cell isolation delivers highly enriched B cells while maintaining cellular health and physiology.
- No Magnets, No Columns, No Stress
- Increase Frequency of Antibody-Producing Hybridomas
- Reduce Time and Resources Spent on Screening
- Fast, Easy, and Effective B Cell Enrichment
Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit delivers a highly enriched population of healthy, viable B cells for use in hybridoma-based monoclonal antibody workflows.
Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit
SKU: 12210-110
Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit delivers a highly enriched population of healthy, viable B cells using a protocol that is fast, easy, and exceptionally gentle on delicate immune cells.
Integrating Microbubbles into Hybridoma Workflows
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are critical biomolecules with applications that span research, diagnostics, therapeutics, and beyond. Hybridoma technology, first discovered in 1975, has quickly become the preferable method of mAb production1. Generally speaking, the hybridoma workflow is laborious and resource-intensive, and has not seen many improvements or optimizations since its inception.
Hybridoma technology involves the fusion of cells from immunized hosts with immortalized myeloma cells to create a hybridoma. These hybridomas are then screened to identify the high-producing clones that yield antibodies with superior antigen specificity, and these selected clones are then expanded to increase production.
Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit can be used to optimize the purification stage, enriching splenocyte samples for highly viable B cells for use in generating hybridomas.
Figure 1: Enhanced Hybridoma Workflow Using Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit
With Akadeum’s microbubble workflow, the entire separation process occurs directly in the sample container without exposing cells to harsh chemicals or harmful shear forces.
This enables quick and easy sample preparation without requiring additional equipment or expensive consumables like magnets or columns while eliminating the need for pour-offs and tube transfers. The end result is a pure population of physiologically unaltered B cells that are ready for downstream use.
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Mouse B Cell Enrichment with Microbubbles Maintains Cell Health & Physiology
Using Akadeum’s exceptionally gentle, microbubble-based approach to separation allows for the enriched B cells to retain their activation and differentiation potential. This novel, non-invasive cell isolation method does not disturb BCRs or skew the isolated populations. See how different labs around the country have used Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit to enrich for unaltered B cells that maintain their native physiological state.
BCR Isotype Distribution Remains Unchanged Following Microbubble Isolation
Using Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit to study autoreactive B cell activation and differentiation (University of California, San Francisco)
Antigen Presenting Capacity Retained After B Cell Enrichment with Microbubbles
Using Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit to study targeted delivery of anti-tumor DNA vaccines to B cells as a novel alternative to chemotherapy (University of Wisconsin)
Differentiation Potential Maintained Through Microbubble-Based Separation
Using Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit to study B cell differentiation into plasma cells (University of Pennsylvania)
Isolate More Cells for Better Science
Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit delivers a high-purity population of healthy, viable mouse B cells using a protocol that is fast, easy, and exceptionally gentle on cells. Ideal for the enrichment of delicate immune cells, separation occurs directly in the sample container without exposing cells to harsh chemicals or harmful shear forces.
How it Works: First, Akadeum’s biotinylated antibody cocktail is added to the sample to label the contaminating cells. Next, the microbubbles are mixed into the sample where the seek out and bind to the unwanted cells. Once bound, they quickly and gently float the undesired cells to the surface. An optional centrifugation step pellets the B cells, and the microbubbles, microbubble-bound cells, and supernatant are easily aspirated away leaving the untouched and enriched B cells happy, healthy, and ready for downstream use.
Fast Processing · Happy, Healthy Cells · Improved Results
Experience the Benefits of a Microbubble Workflow
The Akadeum microbubble protocol enables quick and easy B cell enrichment without requiring additional equipment or expensive consumables like magnets or columns. This results in an incredibly pure population of physiologically unaltered B cells that are poised for downstream use in creating hybridomas.
Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit can be used for the enrichment of B cells from splenocytes obtained from immunized mice. The enrichment of B cells and elimination of irrelevant cell types reduces the number of hybridomas generated with non-antibody producing cells, thereby preventing the waste of precious time and resources on screening immaterial clones.
Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit
SKU: 12210-110
Akadeum’s Mouse B Cell Isolation Kit delivers a highly enriched population of healthy, viable B cells using a protocol that is fast, easy, and exceptionally gentle on delicate immune cells.
References and Further Reading:
- Köhler, G. & Milstein, C. Continuous cultures of fused cells secreting antibody of predefined specificity. Nature 256, 495–497 (1975)