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°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ Media for Hybridoma and CHO Cell Line Development

Liquid and Semi-Solid Media for Efficient Cell Cloning and Generation

Develop CHO cell line, hybridomas, and other cell types using the °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ portfolio of innovative cell line-specific media, designed to provide optimal culture conditions. Available in both methylcellulose-based (semi-solid) and liquid form, °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO and °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY formulations help you achieve a high probability of monoclonality and clonal diversity in just one step.

View all °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ media and supplements, and to help you choose the right product for your needs.

Use °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ to:

  • Save time and resources with a proven semi-solid cloning method that overcomes the challenges of traditional limiting dilution cloning
  • Nurture and save finicky hybridomas generated from mouse, rat, human, rabbit and hamster cells
  • Increase subcloning efficiency during CHO cell line development

Research-stage biotechnology companies and antibodies service companies use °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY to complete antibody development projects faster and deliver the best antibodies for each application.

Dr. M. Javad Aman, President and CSO, Integrated BioTherapeutics, Inc.

Why Use °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢?

  • Save time with semi-solid cloning. Don’t waste resources on empty cloning wells.
  • Superior cloning efficiency and growth of CHO and other cell lines, hybridomas and myelomas.
  • Base methylcellulose medium is easily customized for your cell type. Custom formulations, packaging, and additional sizes are available upon request.
  • Rigorous performance testing, ensuring lot-to-lot reproducibility.
  • Industry-recognized manufacturing expertise and unparalleled technical support.

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°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ for Hybridoma Generation and Expansion

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Hybridoma Kit

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Hybridoma Kit

Recommended Applications:

All steps of mouse monoclonal antibody production: cell fusion, semi-solid cloning/selection and expansion of hybridomas

Advantages:

  • Combines the hybridoma selection and cloning into one step
  • Single-cell derived hybridomas form visible discrete colonies in semi-solid medium for easy picking and screening
  • Rare clones not lost through overgrowth

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢FLEX

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢FLEX

Size:

45 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Formulation:

  • Serum-free
  • Chemically defined
  • Animal component-free
  • Protein-free
  • Methylcellulose
  • DHFR and GS compatible

Recommended Applications:

  • Creating customized semi-solid media for selection and cloning of suspension-adapted CHO cells and hybridomas
  • Converting a liquid medium into semi-solid medium for selection and cloning of a wide variety of cell types
  • Recloning of established, suspension-adapted CHO cells

Advantages:

  • Allows users to create a customized semi-solid medium optimized for a variety of cell types
  • Allows users to convert an existing liquid cloning method into a semi-solid cloning method

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Liquid HAT Selection Medium

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Liquid HAT Selection Medium

Size:

500 mL

Format:

Liquid

Formulation:

  • DMEM
  • Pre-selected serum
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • Supplements
  • Hypoxanthine
  • Aminopterin
  • Thymidine
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Recommended Applications:

  • Selection of hybridomas following cell fusion
  • Cloning of individual hybridomas by limiting dilution

Advantages:

Simplifies hybridoma selection in liquid suspension cultures.

Resources:

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium D without HAT

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium D without HAT

Size:

90 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Formulation:

  • DMEM
  • Pre-selected serum
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • Supplements
  • Hypoxanthine
  • Aminopterin
  • Thymidine
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Recommended Applications:

  • One-step selection (if appropriate selective agent is added) and semi-solid cloning of hybridomas
  • Used after cell fusion

Advantages:

  • Combines the hybridoma selection and cloning into one step
  • Single-cell derived hybridomas form visible discrete colonies in semi-solid medium for easy picking, screening, and expanding
  • Rare clones not lost through overgrowth

Resources:

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY AOF Expansion Medium

Size:

500 mL

Format:

Liquid

Formulation:

  • Hypoxanthine
  • Thymidine
  • Gentamicin
  • L-Glutamine
  • Recombinant proteins

Recommended Applications:

  • Growth and expansion of hybridomas (mouse, rat) and myelomas (mouse, rat, human)

Advantages:

  • Animal origin-free
  • Reduces performance variability in the medium
  • Simplifies downstream clone screening and antibody purification (no serum-derived IgG)

Resources:

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°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Hybridoma Kit Media

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium A

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium A

Size:

500 mL

Format:

Liquid

Ingredients:

  • DMEM
  • Pre-selected serum
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • Supplements
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Application:

Supports the growth of myeloma cells prior to fusion

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium B

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium B

Size:

500 mL

Format:

Liquid

Ingredients:

  • DMEM
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Application:

Used during the fusion process

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium C

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium C

Size:

100 mL

Format:

Liquid

Ingredients:

  • DMEM
  • Pre-selected serum
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • Supplements
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Application:

Promotes hybridoma viability after fusion prior to HAT selection

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium D

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium D

Size:

90 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Ingredients:

  • DMEM
  • Pre-selected serum
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • Supplements
  • Hypoxanthine
  • Aminopterin
  • Thymidine
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Application:

Used for selection and cloning of hybridomas in one step

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium E

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-HY Medium E

Size:

500 mL

Format:

Liquid

Ingredients:

  • DMEM
  • Pre-selected serum
  • L-Glutamine
  • Gentamycin
  • Supplements
  • Hypoxanthine
  • Thymidine
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol

Application:

Supports hybridoma growth and expansion after HAT selection
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°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ for CHO Cell Line Development

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO CD Medium

Size:

90 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Formulation:

  • Serum-free
  • Chemically defined
  • Animal component-free
  • Protein-free
  • DHFR and GS compatible

Ingredients:

  • Methylcellulose
  • Kolliphor P188 / Pluronic F68

Recommended Applications:

  • Selection and cloning of suspension-adapted CHO cells
  • Recloning of established, suspension-adapted CHO cells

Advantages:

Enables single-cell cloning in a chemically defined, animal component-free, protein-free medium

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ FLEX

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ FLEX

Size:

45 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Formulation:

  • Serum-free
  • Chemically defined
  • Animal component-free
  • Protein-free
  • DHFR and GS compatible

Ingredients:

Methylcellulose

Recommended Applications:

  • Creating customized semi-solid media for selection and cloning of suspension-adapted CHO cells and hybridomas
  • Converting a liquid medium into semi-solid medium for selection and cloning of a wide variety of cell types
  • Recloning of established, suspension-adapted CHO cells

Advantages:

  • Allows users to create a customized semi-solid medium optimized for a variety of cell types
  • Allows users to convert an existing liquid cloning method into a semi-solid cloning method

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO CD Liquid

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO CD Liquid

Size:

500 mL

Format:

Liquid

Formulation:

  • Serum-free
  • Chemically defined
  • Animal component-free
  • Protein-free
  • DHFR and GS compatible

Ingredients:

Kolliphor P188 / Pluronic F68

Recommended Applications:

  • Culture of suspension-adapted CHO cells
  • Adaptation of CHO cells for selection and cloning
  • Expanding CHO cells following semi-solid cloning
  • Limiting dilution cloning of CHO cells when used with °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO ACF Supplement
  • Cryopreservation of CHO cells when combined with DMSO

Advantages:

  • Supports expansion of CHO cells in a chemically defined, animal component-free, protein-free medium
  • Compatible with all other °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ products

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO ACF Medium

Size:

90 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Formulation:

  • Serum-free
  • Animal component-free
  • DHFR and GS compatible

Ingredients:

  • Methylcellulose
  • Supplements
  • Kolliphor P188 / Pluronic F68

Recommended Applications:

  • Selection and cloning of transfected suspension-adapted CHO cells where serum-free or animal component-free media is required
  • Recloning of established, suspension-adapted CHO cells

Advantages:

  • Contains only recombinant proteins and synthetic components
  • Greater single cell cloning efficiency of CHO cells compared with chemically defined, protein-free media (particularly at low plating densities)

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO ACF Supplement

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-CHO ACF Supplement

Size:

2.5 mL

Format:

Liquid

Formulation:

  • Serum-free
  • Animal component-free
  • DHFR and GS compatible

Ingredients:

Supplements

Recommended Applications:

  • Supplementing chemically defined, protein-free media or semi-solid media to promote growth of CHO cells during single-cell cloning and expansion
  • Supporting CHO cell expansion

Advantages:

  • Contains only recombinant proteins and chemically defined components at 40X
  • Does not contain serum or hydrolysates

Resources:

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-TCS Medium

°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢-TCS Medium

Size:

80 mL

Format:

Semi-solid

Formulation:

Serum-containing

Ingredients:

  • Methylcellulose
  • 2-Mercaptoethanol
  • L-Glutamine

Recommended Applications:

  • Selection, cloning, and recloning of suspension-adapted or adherent CHO cells and other cell lines
  • Applications where high cloning efficiency and robust colony formation is important

Advantages:

Supports high cloning efficiency and robust colony formation for a variety of cell lines such as: CHO-K1, CHO-S, HEK-293, B16F-10, BaF/3, BHK-1, FD-5, Jurkat Daudi, Molt-4, UT-7

Resources:

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Scientific Resources

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°ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ Media for Hybridoma and Cell Line Development

Key Applications

Cell Line Development:

Ling SSM et al. (2015) PLoS One 10(6): e0131460.
Rodríguez L et al. (2015) J Virol Methods.
Young J et al. (2015) J Immunol Methods Epub ahead.
Chronopoulou E et al. (2014) 2nd Ed. New York: Springer Science+Business Media.: pp47–70.
Date Y et al. (2014) Anal Chem 86(6): 2989–2996.
García-Barreno B et al. (2014) J Gen Virol 95(PART 5): 1033–1042.
Tan GS et al. (2014) J Virol 88(23): 13580–13592.
Kelly-Cirino CD & Mantis NJ. (2009) Infect Immun 77(11): 4859–4867.
Weidanz J a et al. (2006) J Immunol 177(8): 5088–5097.

Hybridoma Development with °ä±ô´Ç²Ô²¹°ä±ð±ô±ôâ„¢ in Different Species:

Chronopoulou E et al. (2014) 2nd Ed. New York: Springer Science+Business Media.: pp47–70.
Cesaro A et al. (2012) PLoS One 7(9): e45478.
Smith S a. et al. (2012) J Virol 86(5): 2665–2675.
Fang L et al. (2008) J Exp Med 205(5): 1037–1048.
Ulbrandt ND et al. (2006) J Virol 80(16): 7799–7806.
Grimaldi JC et al. (1999) J Leukoc Biol 65(6): 846–853.

Pharmacology and Drug Discovery:

Cabral TM et al. (2014) J Virol Methods 195: 54–62.
Retamal M et al. (2014) J Gen Virol 95(Pt_11): 2377–2389.
Hostetter DR et al. (2007) J Biol Chem 282(38): 27865–27874.
Jin C et al. (2006) Glycobiology 16(4): 349–357.
Kuroki M et al. (2005) Anticancer Res 25(6A): 3733–3739.

Immunology Research:

Flyak AI et al. (2015) Cell 160(5): 893–903.
Fang L et al. (2008) J Exp Med 205(5): 1037–1048.
Matsumoto SC et al. (2006) FASEB J 21: 1–21.

Cancer Research:

Chen D et al. (2014) Genes Cancer 5-6(May): 212–225.
Stern HM et al. (2010) Clin Cancer Res 16(5): 1587–1596.
Chen Y et al. (2007) Cancer Res 67(10): 4924–4932.
Wittman VP et al. (2006) J Immunol 177(6): 4187–4195.
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