Home >  Products >  Cell culture and transfection >  Antibiotics and selective antibiotics

Antibiotics and Selective Antibiotics

Microbial contaminants can have adverse affects on cell culture, leading to the loss of cultures and potentially erroneous results should the contamination go undetected.

InvivoGen manufacture a group of protective antibiotic products which can be used profilacticaly to protect cultures from contamination.

 

 

Normocin - mycoplasma, fungi, gram positive and gram negative bacteria, used in combination with pen/strep

 

Primocin - mycoplasma, fungi, gram positive and gram negative bacteria used without pen/strep

 

Fungin - kills yeast, mold and fungi, used with antibacterial agents

 

Plasmocin - used to protect against and treat mycoplasma

 

 

Pen/strep is also available.

 

Selective Antibiotics

 

InvivoGen is a leader in the production of selective antibiotics. They manufacture a large choice of antibiotics for selection in both mammalian cells and E. coli.  Their state of the art facilities allow them to produce large quantities of high quality antibiotics with purity levels exceeding 95%.  All antibiotics are provided as cell-culture tested, sterile solutions which are ready to use. Some are also available in powder format.

 

Blasticidin S

 

G418 Sulphate

 

Puromycin

 

Hygromycin B

 

Phleomycin

 

Zeocin