SIAL (MM)

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma-Aldrich® Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced that Sigma Life Science, its innovative biological products and services business, today launched its CompoZr® Transporter Knockout human cell lines in a consumable, assay-ready plate format. The efflux transporter knockout cell lines allow precise identification of individual drug-transporter interactions, a critical component for understanding the safety and efficacy characteristics of drug candidates. For more information on the CompoZr Transporter Knockout Assay-Ready Plates, visit www.sigma.com/transporterko.

"By offering our cell lines in a user-friendly format, these plates allow customers to avoid handling and maintenance of cell lines, thus reducing operative costs and time.  Meeting the demands of both the occasional and the high-throughput user, the new format helps to address many of the unmet needs for preclinical ADME screening, safety studies, and new regulatory guidelines in the United States and Europe," said Paul Brooks, Ph.D., Market Segment Manager at Sigma Life Science.

The industry's current assays for drug-transporter interactions use chemical inhibitors, which commonly interact with multiple transporters simultaneously and thus generate ambiguous information. The efflux transporter cell lines consist of three individual knockouts (MDR1, MRP2 and BCRP) and double knockouts (MDR1:MRP2, MDR1:BCRP and MRP2:BCRP) that are delivered to the customer in a convenient transwell plate format. These are ready-to-use in the "gold standard" 21-day monolayer Caco assay for studying efflux characteristics and so allows flexibility in the choice and trial of the efflux transporter knockout cell lines to optimize preclinical screening.

For more information, visit www.sigma.com/transporterko.

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About Sigma Life Science: Sigma Life Science is a Sigma-Aldrich business that represents the Company's leadership in innovative biological products and services for the global life science market and offers an array of biologically-rich products and reagents that researchers use in scientific investigation. Product areas include biomolecules, genomics and functional genomics, cells and cell-based assays, transgenics, protein assays, stem cell research, epigenetics and custom services/oligonucleotides. Sigma Life Science also provides an extensive range critical bioessentials like biochemicals, antibiotics, buffers, carbohydrates, enzymes, forensic tools, hematology and histology, nucleotides, amino acids and their derivatives, and cell culture media.

About Sigma-Aldrich: Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company whose biochemical, organic chemical products, kits and services are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research, biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in pharmaceutical, diagnostics and high technology manufacturing. Sigma-Aldrich customers include more than 1.3 million scientists and technologists in life science companies, university and government institutions, hospitals and industry. The Company operates in 38 countries and has nearly 9,000 employees whose objective is to provide excellent service worldwide. Sigma-Aldrich is committed to accelerating customer success through innovation and leadership in Life Science and High Technology. For more information about Sigma-Aldrich, please visit its website at www.sigma-aldrich.com.

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