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Used to detect beta-galactosidase activity to differentiate recombinants from nonrecombinants in cloning experiments
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X-Gal
Company
Promega
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V3941
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100mg/2ml
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Promega
2800 Woods Hollow Rd
Madison
,
WI
53711
United States
Phone
: Tel: +1 (608) 274-4330
Fax: +1 (608) 277-2516
Email: custserv@promega.com
techserv@promega.com
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Citations (22)
(1)
Palmitate-Induced Primary Rat Senescent Astrocytes Exhibit Higher Inflammatory Activity and a Distinct Transcriptomic Profile Compared to Reactive Astrocytes
J Neurochem
July 28, 2025
Michel López-Teros, Karla Estephanía Ávila-Galicia, Raúl Librado-Osorio, Verónica Jimenez-Jacinto, Jorge Antonio Garcia-Álvarez, Georgina Hernández-Montes, Alejandro Sanchez-Flores, Adriana Alarcón-Aguilar, Armando Luna-López, Mina Königsberg
after treatment
. SA‐β‐Gal activity was determined as described by Dimri et al. (1995).
X‐gal
(
PROMEGA
cat. no.
V3941
) treated
astrocytes
were subsequently stained with Safranin to easily differentiate the
astrocytes
.
(2)
Sex differences in middle-aged and old Wistar rats in response to long-term sulforaphane treatment for prevention of neuroinflammation, cognitive decline and brain senescence
Biogerontology
May 17, 2025
Roberto Santín-Márquez, Verónica Salas-Venegas, Jorge Antonio Garcia-Álvarez, Raúl Librado-Osorio, Armando Luna-López, Norma E. López-Diazguerrero, Beatriz Gómez-González, Mina Königsberg
100 mM ferrocyanide, 100 mM ferrocyanide, 5 M NaCl, MgCl2 1 M, and
X-gal
50 mg/mL (
Promega
, USA, cat.
V3941
), and incubated for 14 h at 37 ºC. After
incubation
, slices were washed 3 times with 1 M PBS and 25µL
(3)
Inactivation of Histone Chaperone HIRA Unmasks a Link Between Normal Embryonic Development of Melanoblasts and Maintenance of Adult Melanocyte Stem Cells
Aging Cell
May 14, 2025
Farah Jaber‐Hijazi, Rouven Arnold, Karthic Swaminathan, Kathryn Gilroy, Alexander T. Wenzel, Anthony Lagnado, Kristina Kirschner, Neil Robertson, Claire Reid, Neil Fullarton,
et al.
PBS for 30 min at RT. Embryos were then stained with X‐gal solution containing 1 mg/mL
X‐gal
(
Promega
V3941
), 0.01% sodium deoxycholate, 0.02% NP‐40, 5 mM K4Fe(CN)6, and 5 mM K3Fe(CN)6 for 3 nights (E15.5 and
(4)
Smooth muscle cells and fibroblasts in the ascending aorta exhibit minor differences between embryonic origins in angiotensin II-driven transcriptional alterations
Sci Rep
May 13, 2025
Sohei Ito, David B. Graf, Yuriko Katsumata, Jessica J. Moorleghen, Chen Zhang, Yanming Li, Scott A. LeMaire, Ying H. Shen, Hong S. Lu, Alan Daugherty,
et al.
#0496-0882-15, Eloquest Healthcare Inc).
X-gal
staining
Whole tissues were incubated with
X-gal
(
V3941
,
Promega
) and eosin B (E8764, Sigma). Briefly, tissues were fixed in paraformaldehyde (4% wt/vol), and
(5)
Tgfbr1 controls developmental plasticity between the hindlimb and external genitalia by remodeling their regulatory landscape
Nat Commun
March 20, 2024
Anastasiia Lozovska, Artemis G. Korovesi, André Dias, Alexandre Lopes, Donald A. Fowler, Gabriel G. Martins, Ana Nóvoa, Moisés Mallo
PBS containing 5 mM K3Fe(CN)6, 5 mM K4Fe(CN)6, 2 mM MgCl2, 0.02%
Tween 20
, 0.4 mg/ml
X-gal
(
Promega
#
V3941
) overnight in the dark at 37 °C. The reaction was stopped with β-gal wash buffer, embryos postfixed
(6)
Endothelial Cell SMAD6 Balances ACVRL1/Alk1 Function to Regulate Adherens Junctions and Hepatic Vascular Development
bioRxiv
March 30, 2023
Molly R Kulikauskas, Morgan Oatley, Tianji Yu, Ziqing Liu, Lauren Matsumura, Elise Kidder, Dana Ruter, Victoria L Bautch
stain solution (5mM potassium ferricyanide + 5mM potassium ferrocyanide + 1mg/mL
X-gal
(
Promega
cat no.
V3941
) in wash buffer) for 8 hr at 37°C with gentle rocking. Tissues were washed in PBS, then incubated in
(7)
Allele specific PCR for a major marker of levamisole resistance in Haemonchus contortus
International Journal for Parasitology: Drugs and Drug Resistance
December 1, 2022
Alistair Antonopoulos, Stephen R. Doyle, David J. Bartley, Alison A. Morrison, Ray Kaplan, Sue Howell, Cedric Neveu, Valentina Busin, Eileen Devaney, Roz Laing
cultured on LB-Agar with 100 μg/ml ampicillin (Sigma Aldrich, A9518) and screened using
X-gal
(
Promega
,
V3941
) blue/white colony
screening
. White colonies were picked and further screened with RFLP (section 2.5.2)
(8)
Developmental Potency and Metabolic Traits of Extended Pluripotency Are Faithfully Transferred to Somatic Cells via Cell Fusion-Induced Reprogramming
Cells
October 17, 2022
Song JH, Choi J, Hong YJ, La H, Hong TK, Hong K, Do JT.
supplemented with 25 µg/mL of 5-Bromo-chloro-3-indolyl-galactosidase (
X-gal
;
Promega
, Medison, WI, USA,
V3941
), 5 mM K3Fe(CN)6, and 5 mM K4Fe(CN)6. Cells were incubated at 37 °C and 5% CO2 for 24 h and visualized
(9)
Specific Irreversible Cell-Cycle Arrest and Depletion of Cancer Cells Obtained by Combining Curcumin and the Flavonoids Quercetin and Fisetin
Genes
June 23, 2022
Barra V, Chiavetta RF, Titoli S, Provenzano IM, Carollo PS, Di Leonardo A.
6.0:X-Gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-d-galactopyranoside;
Promega
, Milan, Italy, catalogue number
V3941
) 0.1%;5 mM of potassium ferrocyanide and 5 mM of potassium ferricyanide;150 mM Sodium chloride;2 mM
(10)
Germline polymorphisms and alternative splicing of human immunoglobulin light chain genes
iScience
October 22, 2021
Ivana Mikocziova, Ayelet Peres, Moriah Gidoni, Victor Greiff, Gur Yaari, Ludvig M. Sollid
Easy vector,
Promega
,Cat#:
A1360
X-Gal (5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl-β-d-galactopyranoside),
Promega
,Cat#:
V3941
IPTG,Sigma-Aldrich,Cat#: I5502 ,, Critical commercial
assays
,Critical commercial
assays
,Critical
(11)
Ppp2r2a
Knockout Mice Reveal That Protein Phosphatase 2A Regulatory Subunit, PP2A-B55α, Is an Essential Regulator of Neuronal and Epidermal Embryonic Development
Frontiers in cell and developmental biology
January 1, 2020
Panicker N, Coutman M, Lawlor-O'Neill C, Kahl RGS, Roselli S, Verrills NM.
reaction mix (100 mM NaPO4 , 1.3 mM MgCl2 , 3 mM K3 Fe(CN)6 , 3 mM K4 Fe(CN)6 and 1 mg/mL
X-Gal
(
Promega
#
V3941
) at pH 4.5, with gentle rocking at 37◦ C for 3– 4 h, followed by overnight
incubation
at room temperature.
(12)
Extreme anoxia tolerance in crucian carp and goldfish through neofunctionalization of duplicated genes creating a new ethanol-producing pyruvate decarboxylase pathway
Scientific Reports
December 1, 2017
Cathrine E. Fagernes, Kåre-Olav Stensløkken, Åsmund K. Røhr, Michael Berenbrink, Stian Ellefsen, Göran E. Nilsson
(13)
Irx1 regulates dental outer enamel epithelial and lung alveolar type II epithelial differentiation
Developmental biology
September 1, 2017
Yu W, Li X, Eliason S, Romero-Bustillos M, Ries RJ, Cao H, Amendt BA.
donkey anti-rabbit IgG (
Invitrogen
A21206
,
1:500
) DAPI (
Invitrogen
D1306
, 1 μg/ml), Beta-gal (
Promega
V3941
). 2.4.
X-gal
staining
Embryos and organs were isolated and pre-fixed with ice-cold fixative buffer
(14)
Nkx2.5 marks angioblasts that contribute to hemogenic endothelium of the endocardium and dorsal aorta
eLife
March 8, 2017
Zamir L, Singh R, Nathan E, Patrick R, Yifa O, Yahalom-Ronen Y, Arraf AA, Schultheiss TM, Suo S, Han JJ,
et al
.
buffer containing 1X potassium ferrocynide, 1X potassium ferricynide and 1 mg/ml of
X-gal
(
Promega
,
V3941
). Imaging of whole mount beta-gal stained embryos was done with
Leica
M125 microscope fitted with a
(15)
Protocols for Analyzing the Role of Paneth Cells in Regenerating the Murine Intestine using Conditional
Cre-lox
Mouse Models
Journal of Visualized Experiments
November 21, 2015
Lee Parry, Madeleine Young, Fatima El Marjou, Alan Richard Clarke
VectaShield Hardset mounting Medium
with DAPI,
Vector Labs
,
H-1500
, Vectastain ABC Kit,
Vector Labs
,
PK-4001
,
X-gal
,
Promega
,
V3941
,
X-gal
fixative,*,*,"2% formaldehyde, 0.1% glutaraldehyde in 1xPBS"
X-gal
stain,*,*,"
X-gal
stain;
(16)
Human Norovirus Detection and Production, Quantification, and Storage of Virus‐Like Particles
Current Protocols in Microbiology
November 5, 2013
Kari Debbink, Veronica Costantini, Jesica Swanstrom, Sudhakar Agnihothram, Jan Vinjé, Ralph Baric, Lisa Lindesmith
recipe)
LB broth
containing 100 μg/ml ampicillin (see recipe) 40 μg/ml
X-Gal
(
Promega
, cat. no. PR-
V3941
) DNA suspension buffer (Teknova, cat.no. T0220) Taq DNA Polymerase (
Roche
, cat. no.
11418432001
)
(17)
Connective tissue fibroblast properties are position-dependent during mouse digit tip regeneration
PloS one
January 1, 2013
Wu Y, Wang K, Karapetyan A, Fernando WA, Simkin J, Han M, Rugg EL, Muneoka K.
0.25% glutaraldehyde and stained with
X-GAL
staining
solution (40–50 mg/ml X-gal substrate,
Promega
V3941
). After
X-GAL
staining
the tissues were fixed in Z-fix (Anatech LTD, 174) overnight at room temperature
(18)
Physiological levels of Pik3ca(H1047R) mutation in the mouse mammary gland results in ductal hyperplasia and formation of ERα-positive tumors
PLoS ONE
May 30, 2012
Anjali Tikoo, Vincent Roh, Karen G. Montgomery, Ivan Ivetac, Paul Waring, Rebecca Pelzer, Lauren Hare, Mark Shackleton, Patrick Humbert, Wayne A. Phillips
sections used for
staining
. Cre-mediated recombination, where present, was identified using
X-Gal
(
V3941
,
Promega
Corp.) and counterstained with nuclear fast red using 10 µm sections [28]. Mammary
epithelial cell
(19)
Mycophenolic Acid Overcomes Imatinib and Nilotinib Resistance of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Cells by Apoptosis or a Senescent-Like Cell Cycle Arrest
Leukemia Research and Treatment
February 23, 2012
Claire Drullion, Valérie Lagarde, Romain Gioia, Patrick Legembre, Muriel Priault, Bruno Cardinaud, Eric Lippert, François-Xavier Mahon, Jean-Max Pasquet
mix (1 vol/20 vol) of solution I containing
X-Gal
(20 mg/mL
X-Gal
in dimethylformaldehyde,
Promega
,
V3941
) and solution II (5 mM ferricyanure, 5 mM ferrocyanure, 2 mM MgCl2 150 mM NaCl, 30 mM Citric acid/phosphate
(20)
Limited response to nursery-stage mycorrhiza inoculation of Shorea seedlings planted in rubber agroforest in Jambi, Indonesia
New Forests
January 1, 2010
Hesti L. Tata, Meine van Noordwijk, Richard Summerbell, Marinus J. A. Werger
(2010) 39:51–74 59 Aldrich, USA) amended with 50 lg ml-1 ampicillin (Fluka 10044), 2%
X-gal
(
Promega
V3941
) and 0.1 M IPTG (Isopropyl-D-thiogalactoside; Sigma I-6758).
Cloning
followed the protocol available
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