Glycine, MP Biomedicals™

Glycine, ACS Reagent Grade, White Crystalline Powder

Catalog Number	Quantity
MPB0219404991	1 kg

Catalog number MPB0219404991

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Specifications

Chemical Name or MaterialGlycine

Melting Point240°C (Decomposition)(Literature)

Name NoteFor ACS analysis

CAS56-40-6

ColorWhite

It is widely used as a buffer for a variety of immunological applications.
It is also used as an eluent in column chromatography.
It has been reported for use in the enzymatic determination of lactate using lactic dehydrogenase.
Commonly used as a component in Tris-glycine and Tris-glycine-SDS running buffers for polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a component of Towbin's transfer buffer for Western blots , a buffer substance in cryoenzymology, in osmotic pressure maintenance in isoelectric focusing of erythrocytes, salting-in effect in protein chemistry, and as a buffer component in the coupled phosphatase-kinase reaction for end labelling of restriction fragments.
Glycine is a non-essential amino acid. Only amino acid with no asymmetric carbon.
It is a major inhibitory neurotransmitter.