Physiological chelating agent for heavy metals. It is used as an antirheumatic and as a chelating agent in Wilson′s disease. It is used as a copper chelator to form mixed disulfides with cysteine or other sulfide media components. It is used to inactivate protein-1 DNA binding and to…

Coomassie® Brilliant Blue R-250 is a fast acting, sensitive dye. Brilliant Blue R can be used for staining proteins on polyacrylamide electrophoresis gels. Improvement of sensitivity and background have been accomplished using Brilliant Blue dyes in a colloidal form. Other applications for…

Tetracycline is a broad spectrum polyketide antibiotic with clinical uses in treating bacterial infections such as Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typush fever, tick fevers, Q fever, and Brill-Zinsser disease and to treat upper respiratory infections and acne. It has been used in studies of multidrug…

Fast blue B salt is useful for TLC of Aflatoxins. Fast Blue B is a diazonium salt used as a tissue stain.

Adenine has a wide range of chemical and biochemical roles in vivo and in vitro. It is a regulatory molecule and a component of DNA, RNA, cofactors (NAD, FAD) and signaling molecules (cAMP). It is used as a blood preservative and in viral research.

Lidocaine is the first amino amide–type local anesthetic. Lidocaine is used topically to relieve itching, burning and pain from skin inflammations, injected as a dental anesthetic or as a local anesthetic for minor surgery. A common local anesthetic and antiarrhythmic drug. Na+ channel…

Oleic acid is a mono-unsaturated omega-9 fatty acid created by dehydrogenation of stearic acid. It is then further dehydrogenated and elongated to create members of the n-9 family of fatty acids. Oleic acid is used as emollient. Small amounts of oleic acid are used as an excipient in…

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…

Indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is the most common, naturally-occurring, plant growth regulator - as a principal auxin of higher plants. It is the best known of the auxins, and has been the subject of extensive studies by plant physiologists. Chemically, IAA is a carboxylic acid in which the carboxyl…

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…

Alcian Blue 8GX is a cationic dye used to quantitatively determine glycosaminoglycans by forming insoluble complexes in solution. Alcian Blue 8GX can be used to determine proteins based on their Resonance Light Scattering by strongly enhancing the signals. It is useful as a bacterial stain, and as…

p-nitrophenol is used as an indicator in 0.1% alcohol solutions. 4-Nitrophenol is used as a precursor to prepare phenetidine, acetophenetidne and pH indicator. Its carboxylate ester derivatives are involved as an active component for the construction of amide moieties in peptide synthesis. It is…

* Strong chaotropic agent useful for the denaturation and subsequent refolding of proteins * Used in the isolation of RNA * Solubilizes insoluble or denatured proteins such as inclusion bodies * Can be used for the recovery of periplasmic proteins

Glucose 6-phosphate (also known as Robison ester) is glucose sugar phosphorylated on carbon 6. Very common in cells Start of two major pathways: Glycolysis and Pentose phosphate pathway Can be converted into glycogen or starch for storage D-Glucose 6-phosphate is the core…

Putrescine is a biogenic polyamine and precursor of spermidine. It is formed via decarboxylation of ornithine or by decarboxylation of arginine followed by hydrolysis. Binds to the polyamine modulatory site of the NMDA receptor and potentiates NMDA-induced currents; precursor of spermidine.

8-Anilino-1-naphthalene Sulfonic Acid is a hydrophobic polarity sensitive fluorescent dye useful as a site probe to detect conformational changes in cell and micelle membranes and molecules such as proteins. ANSA is also used as a fluorescent probe for the estimation of the critical micelle…

L-Asparagine is used in cell culture media and is a component of MEM non-essential amino acids solution. L-Asparagine has been shown to enhance ornithine decarboxylase activity in cultured human colon adenocarcinoma Caco-2 cells and in cultured IEC-6 intestinal epithelial cells. Spore germination…

Streptomycin Sulfate is an aminoglucoside antibiotic in which streptidine is linked glycosidically to the disaccharide streptobiosamine. Inhibit bacterial protein synthesis Gram positive bacteria Gram negative bacteria Mode of Action: Inhibits prokaryote protein synthesis. Binds to…

Nalidixic acid sodium salt is an antibacterial agent (synthetic quinolone antibiotic), which is inhibitor of bacterial DNA polymerase (DNA gyrase) & avian myeloblastoma virus reverse transcriptase. Inhibits nucleic acid and protein synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Typically used at a…

Deoxycholic Acid Sodium Salt Monohydrate is an anionic biological detergent for the solubilization of membrane-bound proteins. Anionic detergent; useful for extraction of membrane receptors and other plasma membrane proteins and for nuclei isolation. Deoxycholic acid has been used in a modified…

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…

Sulfanilamide is a molecule containing the sulfonamide functional group attached to an aniline. As a sulfonamide antibiotic, it functions by competitively inhibiting (i.e., by acting as a substrate analogue) enzymatic reactions involving para-aminobenzoic acid (PABA). PABA is needed in enzymatic…

Kanamycin sulfate is an antimicrobial agent effective against Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and mycoplasma. It binds to the 70S ribosomal subunit, inhibits translocation, and elicits miscoding. Cross-resistance occurs between kanamycin and neomycin, framycetin, and paromomycin, and…

β-NAD is one of the biologically active forms of nicotinic acid. Coenzyme of the dehydrogenases, especially in the dehydrogenation of primary and secondary alcohols Inhibitory neurotransmitter in visceral smooth muscle Acts as a hydrogen acceptor, forming NADH …

Sodium nitroprusside dihydrate reagent used for chromatographic detection of peptides containing cystine. Also liberates nitric oxide in biological systems. Sodium nitroprusside dihydrate was used in the digital image analysis for the determination of products of simple colorimetric tests for…

Saponin is "built" from quillaic acid, a sugar and possibly other substances. It is a Glycoside widely distributed in plants. 1% of saponin solution can hemolyze erythrocytes. Saponin solutions have been used in the following ways: concentrations of 0.005%-0.01% were used to…

Lecithin is a purified, wax-like phosphatidylcholine of soybean origin. In addition to being the major structural component of cellular membranes, phosphatidylcholine serves as a reservoir for several lipid messengers, it is the source of the bioactive lipids lysophosphatidylcholine, phosphatidic…

Glutathione suppresses human immunodeficiency virus expression in chronically infected monocytic cells. It is a useful tripeptide involved in many aspects of metabolism, including transport of g-glutanyl amino acids and reductive cleavage of disulfide bonds.

Ampicillin is a semi-synthetic derivative of penicillin, active as a broad-spectrum antibiotic. It is inactivated by beta-lactamases and for this reason a beta-lactamase inhibitor should be considered when using ampicillin. Against gram-positive bacteria, ampicillin has a similar mode of action as…

This α-amylase product is a liquefying diastase supplied as a dry, free-flowing powder having high uniformity and excellent storage stability. The general procedure for the enzymatic liquefaction of starch is the same, regardless of the nature of the end product. The degree of conversion…

MOPSO sodium salt is a zwitterionic aminosulfonate buffer that is very similar in structure to MOPS (3-morpholinopropanesulfonic acid), differing by the presence of a hydroxyl group on C-2 of the propane moiety.

L-(+)-Arabinose is the naturally occurring isomer and is a constituent of plant polysaccharides. L-(+)-Arabinose is used as a substrate to identify, differentiate and characterize pentose sugar isomerase(s). L-Arabinose is used in the bioproduction of L-ribose. L-Arabinose is the naturally…