Xylene cyanol
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Xylene cyanol is most commonly used as an agarose gel electrophoresis size marker. It runs alongside different DNA length markers depending on the % of the agarose gel (while it's own molecular weight is around 540g/mol).
- 5000 bp at 0.5
- 4000 bp at 1.5%
- 750 bp at 2.0%
- 200 bp at 3.0%
order information
- CAS 2650-17-1
- e.g. Sigma Xylene Cyanol FF X4126 10g at around €50
