Imaged Capillary Isoelectric Focusing (icIEF) with Maurice

Meet Maurice, your fully automated capillary electrophoresis instrument that gives you:

  • Ease of use
  • Reproducibility
  • High-quality data
  • Easy method transfer
  • Regulatory compliance
  • Method development in less than a day

 

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icIEF vs cIEF

icIEF is the industry’s gold-standard for protein charge analysis, and there is a difference between icIEF and traditional cIEF. Both measure charge heterogeneity of molecules, but icIEF, based on the iCE technology, uses whole-column imaging, which eliminates the need for mobilization after separation, thus retaining resolution while providing data in 10-15 minutes.

 

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Simplify Protein Charge Analysis

The Maurice instrument accelerates protein charge analysis by automating several steps, allowing icIEF method development in a day while providing high-quality data.

Eliminate:

  • Instrument setup, capillary loading, and clean-up
  • Protein mobilization
  • Prolonged method development
  • High sample volumes

Get:

  • Ease of use - plug in the ready-to-use cartridge, load your samples, and hit Start!
  • More time back – analyze samples in 10-15 minutes
  • High-quality protein charge data in real time
  • Data with low sample volumes
  • icIEF method development in a day
  • Seamless method transfer to QC

Maurice Virtual Demo

Come explore and see how easy it is to measure charge and size heterogeneity with Maurice. Learn about these key elements:

  • Hardware
  • Sample Prep, cIEF and CE-SDS
  • Cartridge Prep & Install, cIEF and CE-SDS
  • Set-up
  • On-board Mixing
  • Compass for iCE Software
  • Maurice Empower® Control Kit
  • Cartridge Cleaning, cIEF and CE-SDS
     
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iCE Instruments for icIEF

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Maurice

One-stop cIEF and CE-SDS. Purity, identity and heterogeneity analysis.

MauriceFlex

MauriceFlex

All-in-one platform for icIEF fractionation plus all the icIEF and CE-SDS capabilities of Maurice. 

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cIEF data in a snap. Identity and charge heterogeneity.

Hear from iCE Maurice Users

Hear from Maurice Users

 

How are scientists in the biopharmaceutical industry using the Maurice system for protein charge and size analysis? Check out these videos featuring scientists who have used Maurice for method transfer, formulation, and gene therapy development. They share their experiences and insights on using Maurice for different applications to do cutting-edge biotherapeutic development.

Get the icIEF Data You Need

Are reproducibility issues hindering your transition across different stages of biotherapeutic development? Whether you’re switching between users or labs, Maurice will give you highly reproducible data on your therapeutics’ charge profiles.

Analyze a Variety of Therapeutic Proteins

Characterize monoclonal antibodies, biosimilars, ADCs, viral vectors, fusion proteins, and more! Analyze molecules even with the most complicated charge profiles, whether you’re in analytical development, QC, formulation development or other phases.

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Analyze AAVs

Check if your AAV capsids are empty or full by leveraging the Maurice system's absorbance and native fluorescence detection modes.

Cetuximab Biosimilar Stability Studies with Maurice App-Note

Analyze Monoclonal Antibodies

See how the Maurice system evaluated the stability of Cetuximab samples that were subjected to forced degradation under various conditions.

Save Your Samples

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A side-by-side comparison of an AAV sample analyzed with absorbance and NF detection modes.

 

icIEF with Maurice offers both absorbance and native fluorescence (NF) detection modes. NF offers 4X the sensitivity of absorbance so you can get the data you need while saving your precious samples! Go as low as 0.7 µg/mL, and you can even reduce the amount of urea in some of your methods since samples tend to aggregate less at lower concentrations.

Read our Application Note for more details on native fluorescence with Maurice.

Maurice On-Board Mixing (OBM) lets you preserve the stability of your samples by adding the IEF master mix right before sample injection instead of mixing them beforehand. Read our Application Note to learn more about Maurice OBM.

Stay 21CFR Part 11 Compliant

In addition to providing high-quality data, our easy-to-use Compass for iCE software addresses your compliance requirements. Do you currently use Waters™ Empower® 3 Chromatography software? You can use it to control Maurice and perform data analysis with our Maurice Empower Control Kit.

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