MiTeGen MicroGrippers™ - SPINE

MiTeGen MicroGripper™ Mounts provide a new approach to retrieving and mounting crystals for room and low temperature measurements.  With all conventional mounts, protein and virus crystals are held in contact with the mount by liquid capillary forces at room temperature, and by frozen liquid at cryogenic temperatures. "Dry" crystals, which give the lowest possible background scatter, tend to fall off the mount.  With a MicroGripper™ Mount, you simply push the mount down onto your crystal. Its tiny, flexible, soft fingers then gently grab your crystal without damaging it (yes, even for protein and virus crystals), firmly holding your crystal in place.

MicroGrippers™ are ideal for data collection at and near room temperature. Because the crystal is gripped, viscous oils are no longer needed to prevent crystal slippage during rotations. Crystals can be mounted at home and shipped to the synchrotron at room temperature.

Use MicroGrippers™ with MiTeGen's MicroRT™ system for easy and foolproof room-temperature data collection. For the lowest background scatter possible, wick away all surrounding liquid before gripping your crystal, and then rehydrate it within the MicroRT tube by injecting a small amount of mother liquor down toward the sealed end of the tube.

MicroGrippers are also well suited for thin plates and rods. Slip them under your crystal, and their soft, flexible fingers will provide very gentle support for the most fragile samples.

Each box contains 20 MicroGripper™ Mounts precision-attached to nonmagnetic SPINE standard pins.