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Cresol Red sodium salt

indicator grade

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C21H17NaO5S
CAS Number:
62625-29-0
Molecular Weight:
404.41
EC Number:
263-654-8
MDL number:
MFCD00001618
UNSPSC Code:
12171500
PubChem Substance ID:
24847175
NACRES:
NA.47

grade

indicator grade

form

solid

mp

250 °C (dec.) (lit.)

solubility

H2O: 1 mg/mL

λmax

425 nm

application(s)

diagnostic assay manufacturing
hematology
histology

storage temp.

room temp

SMILES string

[Na+].Cc1cc(ccc1O)\C(=C2/C=CC(=O)C(C)=C2)c3ccccc3S([O-])(=O)=O

InChI

1S/C21H18O5S.Na/c1-13-11-15(7-9-18(13)22)21(16-8-10-19(23)14(2)12-16)17-5-3-4-6-20(17)27(24,25)26;/h3-12,22H,1-2H3,(H,24,25,26);/q;+1/p-1/b21-16-;

InChI key

GBXGEGUVARLBPB-PLMZOXRSSA-M

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Application

Cresol Red has been used for checking the immobilized carbonic anhydrase-catalyzed reactions. It has also been used in the loading buffer for MHC (major histocompatibility complex) class I typing through PCR.

Biochem/physiol Actions

Cresol Red is used as a pH indicator.

Storage Class

11 - Combustible Solids

wgk_germany

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

ppe

Eyeshields, Gloves, type N95 (US)

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Paula C A Jerónimo et al.
The Analyst, 130(8), 1190-1197 (2005-07-16)
An optical biosensor based on immobilised carbonic anhydrase and its application to the determination of the anti-glaucoma agent acetazolamide by enzyme inhibition measurements, is described. The enzyme and a pH indicator dye, cresol red, were physically immobilised in overlapped sol-gel
E Hodges et al.
Molecular pathology : MP, 50(3), 164-166 (1997-06-01)
Diagnostic immunoglobulin (Ig) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) clonality analyses need to be simple, reproducible, and rapid. Sucrose and cresol red (gel loading buffer reagents) were added to a routine IgH PCR reaction mix to obviate the need for adding gel
[Fundamental studies on the measurement of urinary NAG and determination of the normal values for NAG activity in various age groups].
Y Iimura et al.
Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology, 31(2), 179-184 (1983-02-01)
An internal indicator for alkaline denaturation of double-stranded DNA in dideoxy sequencing reactions.
B H Taylor et al.
BioTechniques, 14(4), 560-560 (1993-04-01)
Berthold Borucki et al.
Biochemistry, 41(31), 10026-10037 (2002-07-31)
We studied the kinetics of proton uptake and release by photoactive yellow protein (PYP) from Ectothiorhodospira halophila in wild type and the E46Q and E46A mutants by transient absorption spectroscopy with the pH-indicator dyes bromocresol purple or cresol red in
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