Ferrous Ammonium Sulfate is often employed as an analytical standard, and has been used in a variety of other applications from nanomaterials to general redox reactions. It is used for titration purposes.

Guanidine Hydrochloride is a strong chaotropic agent useful for the denaturation and subsequent refolding of proteins. This strong denaturant can solubilize insoluble or denatured proteins, such as inclusion bodies, and be used for the recovery of periplasmic proteins. This can be used as the first…

Adenosine is a purine nucleoside comprising a molecule of adenine attached to a ribose sugar molecule moiety via a β-N9-glycosidic bond. It plays an important role in energy transfer. It is an endogenous purine nucleoside that modulates physiological process wherein cellular signaling by…

Potassium phosphate is a reagent with high buffering capacity. It occurs in several forms: monobasic, dibasic and tribasic. Most pH neutral potassium phosphate buffer solutions consist of mixtures of the monobasic and dibasic forms to varying degrees, depending on the desired pH. Potassium…

Acetic Acid, Glacial is an excellent solvent for many organic compounds. Acetic acid is widely used in manufacturing either as starting material or as a solvent. In the food industry, dilute solutions are used for preparation and preservation. Because acetic acid is a weak acid, it is effective as…

ε-Amino-n-Caproic Acid is a lysine analog that inhibits carboxypeptidase B. Plasmin inhibitor Inhibits carboxypeptidase B Promotes rapid dissociation of plasmin by inhibiting activation of plasminogen Utilized in the clotting buffer for fibrinogen assays EACA is reported…

Potassium chloride is a widely used reagent in biochemistry and molecular biology. Potassium chloride is a salt commonly used in the preparation of phosphate buffered saline and for the extraction and solubilization of proteins. It is a good potassium source. Also used in the hypotonic…

MP EcoChrom™ Silica is an oxide of silicon. Their sieve cuts are optimized according to the sieve range of the German Industrial Standard (DIN). The irregular shape of this product permits easy packing of columns of different sizes and optimization of column permeability and plate number.…

Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) is a calcium chelator used to eliminate inhibition of enzyme catalyzed reactions due to traces of heavy metals. For use as an anticoagulant, disodium or tripotassium salts of EDTA are most commonly used.

MP EcoChrom™ Alumina, Activity Super I is essentially aluminum oxide, Al₂O₃, occurring in nature as minerals bauxite, bayerite, corundum, etc. CS72 Its high consistency of the initial activity and its deactivation behaviour makes it a favourable product. MP…

Ammonium acetate is a chemical compound which is derived from the reaction of ammonia and acetic acid. Ammonium acetate is volatile at low pressures. Because of which it has been used to replace cell buffers with non-volatile salts, in preparing samples for mass spectrometry. It is used as a buffer…

Sorbose is a ketose belonging to the group of sugars known as monosaccharides. It has a sweetness that is equivalent to sucrose. The commercial production of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) often begins with sorbose. L-Sorbose is used as a starting reagent for the commercial biosynthesis of ascorbic…

HEPES is a zwitterionic organic chemical buffering agent; one of the twelve Good's buffers. HEPES has been utilized extensively for research and commercial applications in the cell culture and tissue culture industries. HEPES is widely used in cell culture, largely because it is better at…

Sucrose is a nonreducing disaccharide composed of glucose and fructose, linked via their anomeric carbons. It is obtained commercially from Sugarcane, sugar beet (Beta vulgaris), and other plants and used extensively as a food and a sweetener. Use to create sucrose gradients for purification of…

M9 Minimal Medium Salts are suitable for the preparation of M9 Minimal Medium for use in propagation of E. coli and plasmid amplification. The resulting M9 medium can be used for maintaining positive selection pressure on plasmids coding for genes to produce essential substances such as amino acids…

DOB 2% Galactose, 1% Raffinose allows for preparation of a custom synthetic defined yeast media and includes a complete yeast nitrogen base (YNB) composed of buffering salts, vitamins and trace elements, with Galactose and Raffinose as the carbon source and Agar.

D-(+)-Maltose monohydrate is used as a sweetener with about one-third the sweetness of sucrose and as a nutrient in culture media. It is used in pharmaceutical formulations and as a parenteral supplement of sugar for diabetics.

Zinc chloride is a widely used reagent in various industrial processes. These include textile finishing, the etching of metals, the manufacture of parchment paper, and the preparation of galvanizing, soldering, and tinning fluxes. Zinc chloride is also used in organic chemical synthesis, such as in…

Sodium metasilicate nonahydrate is white powder, mainly used in detergent/washing industry, metal cleaner and ceramic industry. In detergent/washing industry, it can be used instead of Sodium triphosphate to raise cleaning efficiency and reduce enviroment pollution, provide excellent alkaline…

Sodium phosphate monobasic is a reagent with very high buffering capacity widely used in molecular biology, biochemistry and chromatography. Useful in conjunction with Sodium Dibasic Phosphate, in the preparation of biological buffers. Used in many applications including the purification of antibodies.

Urea is the principal end product of nitrogen metabolism in most mammals, formed by the enzymatic reactions of the Kreb's cycle. Urea is a mild agent usually used in the solubilization and denaturation of proteins. It is also useful for renaturing proteins from samples already denatured…

L-Glutamic Acid is a non-essential amino acid for human development; referred to as an excitatory amino acid (EAA) due to its role in neurotransmission. Acts as a neurotransmitter at fast synapses; agonist at kainate, NMDA and quisqualate receptors. L-Glutamic acid is one of the two amino acids…

Sodium chloride is a commonly used chemical which is found widely in nature. It is considered to be an essential nutrient. Excess amounts of sodium chloride can destroy electrolyte balance and cause death in most animals, including humans. Sodium chloride is used in a wide variety of biochemical…

β-D-Glucose is critical for production of proteins and the lipid metabolism. β-D-Glucose is a main source of energy for living organisms and is combined into glucosides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides (cellulose and starch), and glycogen. D-Glucose, a naturally…

Potassium Iodide is known as Potassium Salt of Hydriodic Acid [HI], available in white crystalline powder form. It is a mild reducing agent and can be easily oxidized to Iodine by powerful oxidizing agent like chlorine. With elemental iodine it forms I3 (tri iodide), the salts of tri iodide are…

Pepsin, an acid protease, contains a proteolytic enzyme. Pepsin contains the "cathepsin" component which has milk curdling activity. It has a broad range of substrate activity and demonstrates an esterase acitivity. It generally attacks peptide bonds. Pepsin is a peptidase used to…

Trichloroacetic acid is an acetic acid analogue commonly used to precipitate proteins, DNA and RNA. In the presence of SDS Trichloroacetic acid will precipitate proteins which can then be quantified by the Lowry method. The compound has also found uses as a decalcifier and fixative in microscopy,…

Caffeine is a well-known drug commonly used as a mild stimulant, found in dietary sources such as coffee, tea, and cocoa. A central nervous system stimulant believed to act through adenosine receptors and monoamine neurotransmitters. It is an adenosine receptor antagonist and adenosine…

Agar is a polysaccharide complex extracted by bleaching and hot water treatment of agarocytes from the red alga Rhodophyceae, and usually consisting of the genera Gelidium, Acanthopeltis, Ceramium,Pterocladia and Gracilaria. The algae are typically found in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and in the…

Calcium chloride is useful in preparing competent bacteria. Calcium chloride dihydrate was used in the preparation of calcium-alginate beads. It was used to compose the medium for Thermophilic Clostridia (MTC). It may be used for the concentration of virus vectors in a protocol.

Tricine, a zwitterionic buffer, was first prepared by Good for use as a buffer for chloroplast reactions. It is structurally similar to Tris, but is much less inhibitory at high concentrations. The name tricine comes from tris and glycine from which it was derived. Tricine can be used in…