NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Berlin-based biotech-firm Caprotec Bioanalytics said today that it has entered a research collaboration with Bayer CropScience to identify and study an agrochemical target.
The collaboration will use Caprotec's Capture Compound Mass Spectrometry technology to profile the interactions of Bayer CropScience compounds with the proteome of various biological systems. The agreement builds on a previous collaboration between the two companies begun in December 2011 that similarly used the CCMS technology for analysis of a target of interest.
Caprotec's CCMS technology uses capture compounds to reversibly bind target proteins on the basis of small molecule-protein interactions. The captured proteins are then pulled out and analyzed via mass spectrometry.
Financial and other terms of the agreement were not disclosed.