Ampicillin Sodium Salt for Cell Culture

November 22, 2019

Drexel University
Pediatrics
Postdoctoral Associate

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Company:

Sigma Aldrich

Product Name:

Ampicillin

Catalog Number:

A1593

Contamination is a usual phenomenon for cell culture. So ampicillin is the most common used antibiotics used in cell culture medium. I have used ampicillin most of the cell culture medium and also for bacterial culture. This is a selection for ampicillin resistant bacteria.

Experimental Design and Results Summary

Application

Mammalian cell culture and bacterial cell cultre

Starting Material

Cell culture medium, agar broth

Tips

Do not use during transfection experiments

Results Summary

I have used ampicillin for both mammalian cell culture and bacterial transformation experiments. It gave me an edge to contamination free cell culture expts. and helped in getting bactrial colony resistant to ampicillin.

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Summary

The Good

Very effective antibiotic for wide range of cell culture

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The Bottom Line

Very effective antibiotic for wide range of cell culture and bacterial plasmid isolation containing amp resistant gene. I recommend this product from sigma to the researchers in this field.

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