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Revision as of 08:29, 5 May 2009
Bromophenol blue (BPB) is most commonly used as an agarose gel electrophoresis size marker. In a 1% gel it runs at around 500bp but the higher % of the gel the lower it will run. Despite its larger molecular weight of 670g/mol it runs faster than Xylene cyanol (539g/mol) because of its larger negative charge (hydroxyl groups).
Bromophenol blue is also a pH indicator which is yellow below pH=3 and blue-purple at more basic pH.
- 500bp at 1% agarose
- 150bp at 2%
- 50bp at 3%
See also
- agarose gel loading buffer
- agarose gel electrophoresis
- Xylene cyanol - slower than BPB
- Cresol Red - slower than BPB
