Peptide and Tetramer Facility Immunology (PTFI)
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Peptide Facility & HLA (immonology)
Services
Within the Peptide and HLA tetramer facility we offer two services, synthetic peptides and Class I HLA tetramers. You can read more about it below.
Synthetic peptides
We can provide a variety of synthetic peptides of about 8-40 amino acids in length. Peptides can be linear, cyclic or branched.
Peptides might contain non-coding amino acids, D-amino acids, stable isotope labelled amino acids, PEG-spacers, etcetera. We can modify peptides with, for example, biotin, fluorescent tag, a lipid tag like a palmitoyl or cholesteryl moiety, an azide or DBCO group for click applications.
Class I HLA-tetramers
We can provide a variety of class I tetramers, human or murine.
We normally prepare approximately 150 µg of a particular tetramer containing a fluorescent label (for example PE or APC) and a peptide of choice. This is sufficient to perform about 1500 individual tests.