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…

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) from torula yeast may be used as a substrate for studying ribonuclease activities of enzymes such as ribonuclease-A, ribonuclease T1 (RNAase) and bougainvillea xbuttiana antiviral protein 1 (BBAP1).

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Anhydrous Calcium Chloride is highly hygroscopic and is often used as a desiccant. Calcium plays important roles in many biological processes, including signal transduction, muscle contraction, maintenance of cell membranes and cell wall stability. Calcium chloride is a soluble compound that can…

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…

Triethanolamine is a zwitterionic buffer. Triethanolamine(TEA) is used primarily as an emulsifier and surfactant. It neutralizes fatty acids, adjusts and buffers the pH, and solubilises oils and other ingredients that are not completely soluble in water. Triethanolamine is also used as organic…

Gellan gum is a water-soluble polysaccharide produced by Pseudomonas elodea, a bacterium. Gelrite, gellan gum, is recommended as a gelling agent for use in place of agar in microbiological media. Gellan gum is used in a wide variety of immobilization matricies. As a food additive, gellan gum is…

Cellulose is an organic compound, a polysaccharide consisting of a linear chain of several hundred to over ten thousand β(1→4) linked D-glucose units. Cellulose is used as bulking agent, opacifier, anti-caking agent, extrusion aid and stabilizer for foams and emulsions. High purity…

p-Aminobenzoic acid is an organic compound used in the treatment of fibrotic skin disorders like Peyronie's disease. It is employed as an intermediate in the synthesis of folate (Vitamin BX), azo dyes and cross linking agents. It is also useful in biomedical sector for the preparation of local…

2,3,5-Triphenyltetrazolium Chloride is a redox indicator. In the TTC assay (also known as TTC test or tetrazolium test), TTC is used to differentiate between metabolically active and inactive tissues. The white compound is enzymatically reduced to red TPF (1,3,5-triphenylformazan) in living tissues…

Ammonium persulfate is a strong oxidizing agent. It is a radical initiator. Ammonium persulfate is a polymerization catalyst used with TEMED for polyacrylamide gel formation. APS has also been utilized to study protein-protein interactions via photoinitiated crosslinking chemistry. Other…

Non-essential amino acid for human development; referred to as an excitatory amino acid (EAA) due to its role in neurotransmission. L-Glutamic Acid Monosodium Salt is used as a neurotransmitter at fast synapses; agonist at kainate, NMDA and quisqualate receptors. Agonist at kainate, NMDA, and…

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…

Lubrol is a compound composed of ethylene oxide condensates of fatty alcohols. Lubrol is used as a solubilizing agent for membrane bound proteins and membrane-bound adenylcyclase.

Ammonium Molybdate Tetrahydrate is an analgesic.

N-Lauroylsarcosine is an anionic detergent. N-Lauroylsarcosine is used for solubilization and separation of membrane proteins and glycoproteins; reported to inhibit hexokinase. It is useful in concentrated salt solutions used in the cell lysis step during RNA purification (helps avoid excessive…

Bovine albumin is a single polypeptide chain consisting of approximately 583 to 595 amino acid residues and no carbohydrates. At pH 5-7 it contains 17 intrachain disulfide bridges and 1 sulfhydryl group. Albumin binds water, Ca2+, Na+, and K+. Due to a hydrophobic cleft, albumin binds fatty…

Beef extract is a water soluble powder that is used in general purpose media. It is recommended for use in bacteriological examination of water, milk, and other materials, where uniform composition of media is important and for biochemical studies, particularly fermentation reactions because of its…

Agarose is a purified linear galactan hydrocolloid isolated from agar or agar-bearing marine algae. Allows recovery of active DNA after separation, with minimal inhibition of restriction and ligation enzymes Suitable for both analytical and preparative electrophoresis procedures Good…

β-Mercaptoethylamine is a useful antioxidant .It is experimentally used as a radioprotective agent and It is also used to produce acute and chronic duodenal ulcers in rats and as an antidote to acetaminophen. β-Mercaptoethylamine derived from cysteine degradation is the simplest stable…

β-D-Glucose is a main source of energy for living organisms. It is combined into glucosides, disaccharides, oligosaccharides, the polysaccharides (cellulose and starch), and glycogen. β-D-glucose may contain up to 10% of α-isomer.

MP offers this grade of albumin as a more highly purified product than our traditional True Cohn Fraction V Powder. Due to lower manufacturing costs, this grade is available at a substantial savings relative to our True Cohn Fraction V Powder. Albumin is general blocking reagent in ELISA, as a…

Prior to lyophilization, the product is filtered through a 0.2 µm filter. Albumin is used to solubilize lipids, and is also used as a blocking agent in Western blots or ELISA applications. Globulin free albumins are suitable for use in applications where no other proteins should be present…

Phenolphthalein can be used in a 1% alcoholic solution as an indicator in titrations of mineral and organic acids and most alkalies. Not suitable for ammonia. Very sensitive to CO₂; and, in estimating carbonates, the liquid must be boiled. Borax can be titrated with phenolphthalein as an…

Potassium bicarbonate is a widely used reagent in research and industrial applications. Potassium bicarbonate has been used in studies of renal disorders and the relationship of muscle injury to this process. Potassium bicarbonate has been shown to inhibit the growth of Aspergillus parasiticus in…

Diatomaceous Earth, Acid-washed is an inert material. Diatomaceous earth acid-washed is used as a filtration aid. It is suitable for most routine filtrations.

Sodium phosphate dibasic heptahydrate is a reagent with very high buffering capacity widely used in molecular biology, biochemistry and chromatography. Sodium phosphate dibasic is highly hygroscopic and water soluble. Useful in conjunction with Sodium Phosphate, Monobasic in the preparation of…

Sodium phosphate is a reagent with very high buffering capacity that is widely used in molecular biology, biochemistry, and chromatography. Sodium phosphate occurs in several forms: monobasic (NaH₂PO₄), dibasic (Na₂HPO₄), and tribasic…

Thiamine (Vitamin B1) is one of the essential vitamins and is required for carbohydrate metabolism. Thiamine hydrochloride is used as a food-additive to add a brothy/meaty flavor to gravies or soups. It is also used as food supplement. Used in fluorometric determination of mercury.

Lidocaine is a selective inverse peripheral histamine H1-receptor agonist with an IC50 of >32 μM. Lidocaine is also an anasthetic and class Ib antiarrhythmic agent. This compund is known to block voltage-gated sodium channels in the inactivated state. Lidocaine is a second-generation…

Lactase is an enzyme preparation produced by Aspergillus oryzae fermentation. Hydrolyzes Lactose Produces β-D-Galactose and a-D-Glucose One unit will hydrolyze 1.0 µmole of o-nitrophenyl-beta-D-galactoside to o-nitrophenol per minute at pH 4.5 and 30°C …