Antibiotics are used in a wide range of techniques in molecular biology. My aim with this post is to provide an easy reference to some of the main antibiotics used in molecular biology, their mechanisms, range and working concentrations. I hope you will find it useful. If I have missed out an antibiotic that you use routinely in your work, please feel free to contact me or leave a comment and and I will add it to the table.
*Abbreviations: Gm(+/-)=Gram positive/negative; My=mycoplasma; F=fungus; Y=yeast. Ampicillin
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Nick Oswald
Nick is a molecular biologist who grazes in the field of biocatalysis by day and cooks up Bitesize Bio by night.
October 2nd, 2007 at 8:28 pm
[...] Antibiotics Used in Molecular Biology Antibiotics are used in a wide range of techniques in molecular biology. My aim with this post is to provide an easy reference to some of the main antibiotics used in molecular biology, their mechanisms, range and working concentrations … [...]
November 22nd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
[...] Antibiotics Used in Molecular Biology [...]
July 24th, 2008 at 12:11 am
In my lab we generally use 7 ug/mL for gentamycin