Life Science Buffers
Balanced salt solutions and powders used for molecular, protein, nucleic acid, and cell biology applications including cell culture, electrophoresis, ELISA, and chromatography processes; available in a variety of formulations and grades.
Buffer solutions serve to keep pH (acidity or alkalinity) nearly constant in a variety of chemical and biological applications. For example, a bicarbonate buffer helps maintain the pH of blood, a buffered saline maintains cellular contents at a consistent pH level, and buffers help maintain a narrow pH range for enzymes to function correctly.
Most biological samples used in research are kept at a pH of about 7.4. Common biological buffers used for tissue culture include Dulbeccos phosphate buffered saline (PBS), Tris base, HEPES, MOPS, PIPES, and other formulations developed for specific cell lines or applications. Most buffers used in cell culture are also DNase-, RNase-, and protease-free.
The choice of buffer for a particular biological reaction or site depends on several factors:
- Temperature
- Desired or target pH
- Buffer toxicity (to the system)
- Buffer interactions with other system components
Thermo Scientific Chemicals Tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane, ultrapure, 99.9%
CAS: 77-86-1 Molecular Formula: C4H11NO3 Molecular Weight (g/mol): 121.136 MDL Number: MFCD00004679 InChI Key: LENZDBCJOHFCAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N Synonym: TRIS PubChem CID: 6503 ChEBI: CHEBI:9754 IUPAC Name: 2-amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol SMILES: C(C(CO)(CO)N)O
Gibco™ CTS™ DPBS, calcium, magnesium
Gibco Cell Therapy Systems DPBS CTS™ is the classical Dulbecco's Phosphate Buffered Saline which contains calcium, magnesium but no phenol red.
Invitrogen™ Novex™ Tris-Glycine Native Sample Buffer (2X)
Ideal for native running conditions with NuPAGE Tris-Acetate gels
Invitrogen™ 20X Bolt™ MOPS SDS Running Buffer
Optimized for use with Bolt™ Bis-Tris Plus gels, and are available in a variety of formats
Invitrogen™ TBE (10X), RNase-free
Molecular biology grade, Invitrogen 10X TBE solution is supplied in four bottles containing 1 L each. The buffer is certified RNase-free, economical, and ready-to-use.
Gibco™ Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH) Solutions, 0.1–1.0 M
Gibco NaOH solutions offer more options for supply security and dual sourcing of the highest volume process liquid in bioprocessing manufacturing.
Thermo Scientific Chemicals TRIS-buffered saline (TBS, 10X) pH 7.4
CAS: 77-86-1 Molecular Formula: C4H11NO3 Molecular Weight (g/mol): 121.136 MDL Number: MFCD00132476 InChI Key: LENZDBCJOHFCAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N PubChem CID: 6503 ChEBI: CHEBI:9754 IUPAC Name: 2-amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol SMILES: C(C(CO)(CO)N)O
TE Buffer, Tris-EDTA, 100X Solution, pH 8.0, Molecular Biology, Fisher BioReagents™
Bis-Tris, Fisher BioReagents
CAS: 6976-37-0 Molecular Formula: C8H19NO5 Molecular Weight (g/mol): 209.242 InChI Key: OWMVSZAMULFTJU-UHFFFAOYSA-N Synonym: 2,2-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-2,2?,2?-nitrilotriethanol,2, 2-Bis(hydroxymethyl)-2, 2?,Bis(2-hydroxyethyl)amino-tris(hydroxymethyl)methane PubChem CID: 81462 ChEBI: CHEBI:41250 IUPAC Name: 2-[bis(2-hydroxyethyl)amino]-2-(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol SMILES: C(CO)N(CCO)C(CO)(CO)CO
Tris Hydrochloride, 1M Solution (pH 7.5/Mol. Biol.), Fisher BioReagents™
CAS: 77-86-1 Molecular Formula: C4H11NO3 Molecular Weight (g/mol): 121.136 InChI Key: LENZDBCJOHFCAS-UHFFFAOYSA-N Synonym: Tris-HCl PubChem CID: 6503 ChEBI: CHEBI:9754 IUPAC Name: 2-amino-2-(hydroxymethyl)propane-1,3-diol SMILES: C(C(CO)(CO)N)O
HEPES Sodium Salt (White Powder), Fisher BioReagents
CAS: 75277-39-3 Molecular Formula: C8H17N2NaO4S Molecular Weight (g/mol): 260.28 MDL Number: MFCD00036463 InChI Key: RDZTWEVXRGYCFV-UHFFFAOYSA-M PubChem CID: 2724248 ChEBI: CHEBI:46758 IUPAC Name: sodium 2-[4-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazin-1-yl]ethane-1-sulfonate SMILES: [Na+].OCCN1CCN(CCS([O-])(=O)=O)CC1