UK and Ireland Distributor of Nanoprobes - developers of nanogold, nanomaterial and nanoparticles for sensitive and rapid medical diagnostics

Nanoprobes

Nanoprobes are a nanoparticle research collaborative, striving to engineer the most sensitive reagents and nanotechnology for detecting biological molecules.

Using gold labels for sensitive and rapid medical diagnostics, Nanoprobes offer a range of reagents for chemical amplification, staining and imaging. Nanogold^® probes have been cited in over 250 publications, and are used in the laboratories of several Nobel Laureates. For the latest in detection technology and reagents, look to Nanoprobes.

AuroVist™ 15 nm & 1.9 nm X-ray Contrast Agent

AuroVist™ 15 nm: Gold Blood Pool X-ray Contrast Agent is the highest contrast of any blood pool contrast agent and has the longest blood residence of any x-ray contrast agent available.

An independent comparison study of micro CT contrast agents evaluated AuroVist 15 nm against Iomeron 400, eXIA160XL and ExiTron nano 12000. Their conclusion:

“AuroVist 15 nm provided the highest attenuation… AuroVist 15 nm is best suited for anatomical investigation of the vascular network.”

Laura Nebuloni, Gisela A. Kuhn, Ralph Müller. A Comparative Analysis of Water-Soluble and Blood-Pool Contrast Agents for in vivo Vascular Imaging with Micro-CT. Academic Radiology 2013; 20:1247-1255.

“Gold nanoparticles (AuNp) are becoming one of the most promising contrast agents for CT due to their remarkable properties including high x-ray absorption coefficient, tailored surface chemistry, and excellent biocompatibility.<”/p>

Darin P Clark, Ketan Ghaghada, Everett J Moding, David G Kirsch and Cristian T Badea. In vivo characterization of tumor vasculature using iodine and gold nanoparticles and dual energy micro-CT. 2013 Phys. Med. Biol. 58 1683

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Nanogold^® Conjugates

Unlike colloidal gold probes which can only be adsorbed onto proteins, The 1.4 nm Nanogold^® particle covalently reacts at specific sites under mild buffer conditions. As a result, the Nanogold conjugate has excellent stability compared to colloidal gold-antibody preparations. It is the first probe offered as a Fab’ conjugate, making it the smallest gold-antibody probe commercially available. These substantially smaller probes reach more antigens and provide better labelling.

The Nanogold conjugates can be viewed directly in transmission electron microscopy without silver enhancement. Alternatively, they can be developed with silver to any appropriate size for enhanced visibility with other counterstains.

GoldiBlot™

Nanogold® Secondary Antibody Conjugates

Nanogold® - Anti Biotin / Streptavidin

There are many other conjugates that you can make with Nanogold. See the Labelling Reagents Brochure here or contact us to know more!

Features of Nanogold^® Conjugates

• The smallest commercially available gold immunoprobes.
• Penetrates and reaches antigens inaccessible to other probes: proven penetration up to 40 μm into cells and tissue sections.
• Extremely uniform 1.4 nm diameter gold label.
• Fab’, IgG and Streptavidin conjugates available.
• Close to 1 Nanogold^®particle to 1 Fab’ (or IgG).
• Low non-specific affinity gives minimal background.
• Ultra-sensitivity with silver enhancement: 0.1 pg of antigen detection on immunoblots.
• Gold is covalently attached to antibody remote from antigen binding region.
• High stability and long shelf life: conjugates show unchanged reactivity after storage for a year.
• Stable to a wide range of pH and ionic strengths.

Applications

• In SituHybridization
• Electron Microscopy
• Light and Confocal Microscopy
• Blotting and Immunochemical Techniques
• Gel Stain Nanogold^®-labeled bands

FluoroNanogold

With a combined fluorescent label and the Nanogold^® gold nanoparticle, label the same sample for both confocal and EM in just one step.

“FNG [FluoroNanogold™] is a probe containing two different markers; it opens the possibility of imaging the same sample at both the optical and the EM level. Thus, it is easy to perform a multimodal investigation, either on different cells or on the same cell visualized by correlative microscopy.”

Cheutin, T.; Sauvage, C.; Tchélidzé, P, O’Donohue, M. F.; Kaplan, H.; Beorchia, A., and Ploton, D.: Visualizing macromolecules with FluoroNanogold: from photon microscopy to electron tomography. Methods Cell Biol., 79, 559-574 (2007).

• Alexa Fluor^®* 647 FluoroNanogold™
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• Alexa Fluor^®* 594 FluoroNanogold™
• Alexa Fluor^®* 546 FluoroNanogold™
• Alexa Fluor^®* 488 FluoroNanogold™
• Fluorescein FluoroNanogold™
• Custom FluoroNanogold™ Conjugates
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Lipid Conjugates

Each lipid molecule is covalently linked to a Nanogold^® or undecagold cluster through its polar head group. Since the gold moiety is hydrophilic, these molecules retain the amphiphilic nature of the parent lipid, and behave like fatty acids or phospholipids.

Study membranes by incorporation into the lipid phase, or gold-label micelles and vesicles so that they can be identified and visualized.

• Discrete single molecules with one lipid to one gold cluster label.
• Covalent attachment ensures consistent structure and properties.
• Stable, long shelf life.
• Soluble in organic solvents and alcohols for easy incorporation into liposomes.
• Visualize directly by EM
  or use silver enhancementor gold enhancement to see by eye or LM
• Available with 1.4 nm Nanogold^® or 0.8 nm undecagold

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Gold Enhancement with GoldEnhance™

Gold is the new silver! Silver enhancement has long been used by microscopists to better visualize gold labeling, especially when using small gold particles. With GoldEnhance™, gold ions are specifically deposited around the gold nanoparticle, growing it in size, and offering several advantages over silver.

For TEM, the 1.4 nm Nanogold^® can be enlarged to 3-20 nm for clear visiblility, even at low magnifications. Using an initial small gold immunoprobe allows better penetration into tissues (up to 40 microns!) and better labeling of antigens. Then gold enhancement makes everything clearly visible.

The development time can be extended to deposit more gold and make the signal visible by bright field (or reflection) light microscopy. With a little more development time, the signal can be seen by the naked eye, and can be used with dot blots or Westerns.

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Silver Enhancement

HQ Silver, Product Code: NP-2012
Highest quality enhancer for Nanogold^®, giving uniform development and excellent structural preservation. especially for EM; light sensitive.

LI Silver, Product Code: NP-2013
Light insensitive, simple and convenient enhancer for EM, LM, and blots

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EnzMet™ - Enzyme Metallography

What is EnzMet?

Enzmet is used for clearer, crisp staining for in situ hybridization (ISH) and immunohistochemistry (IHC)

It is a new biological labelling and staining method developed at Nanoprobes. It uses a targeted enzymatic probe with a novel metallographic substrate to provide a quantum leap in staining clarity over conventional chromogenic and fluorescent substrates.

EnzMet™ has proven highly sensitive both for in situ hybridization (ISH), where it readily visualizes endogenous copies of single genes, and immunohistochemistry (IHC) detection.

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Gold Nanomaterials: Functionalized Nanoparticles

Gold nanomaterials include 5 nm and 3 nm functionalized gold nanoparticles, available with a range of solubility properties:

These nanoparticles are coated and stabilized using different thiol ligands capped by chemical groups which provide a variety of solubilities, and these gold nanomaterials are therefore suitable for a wide range of applications in different systems and environments.

The octane- and dodecanethiol functionalized gold nanoparticles have great solubility in organic solvent such as toluene, while the hydrophilic (1-mercaptoundec-11-yl) tetraethyleneglycol functionalized gold nanoparticles dissolve in water and alcohols. The 1-mercapto-(triethyleneglycol) methyl ester functionalized gold nanoparticles are amphiphilic, dissolving in a wide variety of solvents including toluene, chloroform, ethyl acetate, acetone, water and alcohols.

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Amphiphilic Gold Nanoparticles

Product Code NP-3012. 1-Mercapto-(triethylene glycol) methyl ether functionalized 5 nm gold nanoparticles.

The thiol is covalently attached to 5 nm gold nanoparticles. Soluble in a variety of solvents including toluene, chloroform, ethyl acetate, acetone, water and alcohols.

Hydrophilic Gold Nanoparticles

Product Code NP-3013. (1-Mercaptoundec-11-yl) tetraethyleneglycol functionalized 5 nm gold nanoparticles.

The thiol is covalently attached to 5 nm gold nanoparticles. Soluble in alcohol and water.

Hydrophobic Gold Nanoparticles

Product Code: NP-3014. Dodecanethiol functionalized 5 nm gold nanoparticles.

The thiol is covalently attached to 5 nm gold nanoparticles. Use in organic solvents such as toluene.

Product Code: NP-3015. Octanethiol functionalized 3 nm gold nanoparticles

The thiol is covalently attached to 3 nm gold nanoparticles. Use in organic solvents such as toluene.

1.4 nm Nanogold^® Labelling Reagents

The 1.4 nm Nanogold^® particle is a gold compound: it is not just adsorbed to proteins, like colloidal gold, but covalently reacts at specific sites under mild buffer conditions. This gives a well-defined product that can be purified chromatographically.

• Nanogold^® brings the versatility of fluorescent conjugation to gold labelling.
• Label any molecule with a suitable reactive group: oligonucleotides, lipids, peptides, proteins, enzyme inhibitors and others.This is a big improvement over colloidal gold, which may be adsorbed only to antibodies and a limited range of proteins and peptides.
• Nanogold^® is small and highly uniform in size, in sharp contrast to small colloidal gold preparations (most commonly used “1 nm” colloidal golds actually range from 1 to 3 nm).

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Histadine (His) Tag Labelling

GoldiBlot™ 1-Hour Western blots for His-tagged Proteins

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Ni-NTA-Nanogold^® for His-tag labeling & detection

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Magnetic Nanoparticles

Biocompatible and Superparamagnetic: The latest line of nanoparticles are iron-based, yet carefully engineered for both biocompatibility and superparamagnetic properties- and heating in an alternating magnetic field.

• Superparamagnetic iron oxide core
• Biocompatible shell of long-chain PEG
• Extremely low toxicity:MTD50 ≥ 2g Fe/kg in mice*
• Long blood half-life
• Sized to use EPR toload angiogenic, cancerous tissue
• Excellent heating in an alternating magnetic field

Does this get your imagination going? It sure does for us! The potential here is exciting, including nano-scale electronics, MRI contrast agents, cancer treatments with magnetic heating, and wide industrial applications.

Our biocompatible magnetic nanoparticles are unique in the market - and a significant breakthrough in the pursuit of medical treatments of the future.

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Negative Stains for Electron Microscopy (EM)

NanoVan^® - based on Vanadium. For Nanogold^® or anywhere a low atomic number light stain is needed .

Nano-W^® - based on an Organotungsten compound. High density, high contrast

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