Chemicals for Molecular Biology

Serine Protease for general
digestion of proteins
Proteinase K

Standard Agarose for separation
of nucleic acids from 50 bp to 50 kbp
Agarose

Chromogenic substrate for
beta-galactosidase

X-gal (MBG)

A chemically synthesized organic
molecule capable to cleave RNA
in RNAse A like manner
RNAse mimic

Inducer of beta-galactosidase
activity

IPTG (MBG)

Additive to DNA or RNA solutions for
improvement of recovery during
alcohol precipitation
Linear Polyacrylamide