For novel drug development.
Design and manufacturing of high-quality and bioactive recombinant proteins.
We are a quality-focused biotechnology company dedicated to enhancing the latest therapeutic technologies, including cell therapies, gene editing, immunotechnology, and vaccines.
Innovative drug discovery requires innovative reagents.
Our customers develop novel therapies and so they need customized or first-to-market proteins and enzymes.
We carefully select our catalog products based on unmet needs in the market.
Our focus is customization and tailored solutions so that your innovation potential is limitless.
Choose from our selection of over 2500 ready-to-ship recombinant protein products. Our catalog products are carefully selected based on product quality and unmet needs in the research industry.
We test all of our proteins in 8-16 various expression conditions to determine the optimal expression conditions for yield, purity, and activity.
Our products undergo rigorous quality control testing for purity and bioactivity. We use analyses such as HPLC, SPR, and ELISA to ensure suitability for your application.
Rational, thoughtful decisions based on structural analysis are the foundation for our SAMS protein engineering platform. All of our catalog products undergo rigorous design testing to ensure natural protein configurations and optimized activity.
150+ catalog products with various alleles, peptides, fluorophores, & tetramers.
Stabilized peptide-free MHCs designed for loading your neoantigen peptides in-house.
Custom expression of soluble TCRs and MHC/TCR binding analysis.
SAMS (Structure Aided Design and Multiplex Screening) is our high-throughput protein expression and purification screening system.
The structural hierarchy is the overarching list of variables that will affect protein structure and function.
Unmet needs for commercial proteins are identified via literature and database searches. We then use bioinformatics and structural analysis to design a variety of protein sequences/structures based on variables from the structural hierarchy.
Integrity, signal peptide, codons, etc. are analyzed using structural informatics and 3D modeling to determine how they will influence all four levels of protein structure.
The optimal protein configuration is identified from large search spaces of protein configurations and expression conditions. We prioritize natural protein configuration, yield, and bioactivity.
Protein designs are tested for bioactivity in multiple cell types/settings. Because we ensure protein function in multiple settings, you can be confident that the protein you purchase will work for your application.
Our products are used worldwide for diverse applications, including basic research, drug discovery, diagnostic study, antibody production, quality control testing, and more. Through the SAMS platform, we have already produced multiple challenging proteins, including the first ever full-length Claudin 18.2 protein.
KACTUS recombinant proteins are designed and manufactured in-house, giving a high level of control over every step from protein engineering to product validation. We test each prodcut for bioactivity throughout the development process to ensure function in multiple in vitro settings. Each batch undergoes strict quality control testing including purity, activity, and endotoxin. Our high level of control results in superior batch to batch consistency. Moreover, the majority of our products are expressed using mammalian cell lines, allowing for post-translational modification, native protein conformation, and low endotoxin levels.
Vertical integration of protein engineering & manufacturing
Mammalian cell line expression systems
Comprehensive quality control testing
We monitor the entire production process to ensure expression conditions are optimal for that specific protein. This includes monitoring the growth of the host cells, expression of the target gene, and purification of the recombinant protein. The expression process is optimized to minimize the presence of contaminants that can affect the purity or activity of the final product.
PURITY The purity of each recombinant protein is ensured using HPLC and by quantifying the level of impurities, such as host cell proteins, endotoxin, and host cell DNA in the final product.
ACTIVITY The potency of our recombinant proteins is analyzed by measuring its in vitro activity, such as its ability to bind to its target molecule via ELISA or SPR assay.
CONSISTENCY Our products are tested for batch-to-batch consistency to ensure stable bioactivity across lots. Additionally, we assess stability of our products by measuring degradation over time and resistance to environmental stress factors, such as temperature and pH changes.
Fig 1. Imobilized Human DDL3, His Tag at 0.1µg/mL (100µl/well) on the plate. Dose response curve for Anti-DDL3 Antibody, hFc Tag with an EC50 of 5.0, 4.5 and 5.0 ng/mL respectively determined by ELISA
Fig 2. Immobilized Human Siglec-10, His Tag at 0.5µg/mL (100µl/well) Dose response curve for Anti-Siglec-10 Ab., hFc Tag with an EC50 OF 7.3, 7.7 and 7.4ng/mL, respectively asgetermined by ELISA
Fig 3. Immobilized Human CD4 at 0.5µg/mL (100µl/well) on the plate. Dose response curve for Anti-CD4 Antibody, hFc Tag with an EC50 OF 10.2, 10.6 and 10.6 ng/mL respectively as determined by ELISA
Our quality management system monitors the entire production process to ensure each batch is manufactured under the same optimal conditions for that protein. This includes monitoring the growth of the host cells, expression of the target gene, and purification of the recombinant protein. Moreover, the protein expression process is optimized during development to minimize the presence of contaminants that can affect the purity or activity of the final product.
Full-length multi-pass transmembrane proteins for antibody drug discovery and development.
Browse our suite of HLA-G monomers and tetramers and associated LILRA and LILRB receptors.
Cell adhesion protein for iPSC culture and other pluripotent stem cells.
Reliable bulk supply of research-grade or preclinical-grade.
High sensitivity, reproducible AAV Capsid Titer using sandwich ELISA.
High-purity, bioactive CD3 proteins for bispecific antibody development.
Monomers & heterodimers with equally expressed subunits.