VANCOUVER, British Columbia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 21, 2012-- At ASMS 2012, Bruker announces the launch of the newultrafleXtreme™MALDI TOF/TOF system. Bruker's market leading, top of the range product has been significantly enhanced to offer both increased analytical power and entirely new functionality, extending the applications envelope of MALDI TOF/TOF far beyond the conventional concepts of what's possible in molecular histology, glycoprotein and biopharmaceuticals analysis.
Already the acknowledged leader in Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI), the next-generationultrafleXtremesystem incorporates the Bruker patentedsmartbeam™laser, now with up to 2 kHz repetition rate with true-pixel image resolution at 20µm for proteins. This development marks a new milestone in the pioneeringsmartbeamlaser technology, designed and manufactured exclusively by Bruker for unmatched performance in MALDI mass spectrometry.
While biomarker discovery in large tissue-sample cohorts can now be achieved at record high speed, Bruker has also significantly extended the discovery potential of Molecular Histology with the newImageID™workflow. The proprietaryImageIDworkflow is a fully-integrated process to provide scientists with integrated tissue maps for both protein distribution and identification. More than 100 proteins are typically characterized by theImageIDworkflow, where consecutive histological sections are processed in parallel to generate complementary datasets in a single software environment for comprehensive analysis.ImageIDyields identifications of approximately 80% of all peptides observed in imaging measurements, also those derived from high molecular weight proteins. For the first time, the method can access fixed (FFPE) tissue, allowing molecular histology to be applied to vast collections of archived clinical samples to unlock a potential treasure chest of biomarker data in cancer studies.
TheultrafleXtremehas also become the industry trendsetter in tools for biopharmaceutical characterization with patented Top-DownT3-Sequencing为揭示终端修改,post-translational modifications (PTMs) and sequence impurities. Bruker now presents its rapidly expanding biologics customer base with high resolution intact biomolecule analysis on the newultrafleXtremeplatform. The new MALDI-TOF/TOF system leaps across the conventional boundary between MALDI and electrospray ionization by generating multiply-charged intact protein ions for measurements with mass resolution of greater than 30,000, which can yield isotopic information for 30 kDa proteins, and larger protein molecular weight assignments with better than 15 ppm mass accuracy. Achieved using the newultrafleXtreme FlashDetector™and DHAP matrix innovations, this intact protein bioanalytical ability represents a paradigm change for biologics discovery, development and QC.
TheultrafleXtreme's utility for the biopharmaceutical industry and life-science research is further enhanced by Bruker's newGlycoQuest™glycan search engine which retrieves glycan structure candidates with unprecedented ease, enabling expert full glycoprotein structure elucidation for every molecular biologist.
"Precise intact biomolecule data at the speed and simplicity of MALDI analysis with full glyco-structure reporting really completes the picture for our biopharma customers," commented Dr. Laura Main, Bruker Daltonics' Biopharmaceutical Market Manager.
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