Kanamycin Acid Sulfate, BP is an aminoglycoside antibiotic often used to select for bacteria which have been successfully transformed with a plasmid conferring kanamycin resistance. Kanamycin is very soluble in aqueous solution at 92.3 mg/mL.
Standard grade Kanamycin is composed of a mixture of three different fractions: Kanamycin A, B, and C. Kanamycin A is the major component of the complex, and Kanamycin B (II) and C (III) are minor components.
We also offer:
- Kanamycin Sulfate, USP (K008)
- Kanamycin Acid Sulfate, for BioProcessing (K012)
- Kanamycin A sulfate, EvoPure® (K013)
- Kanamycin B sulfate, EvoPure® (K014)
EvoPure® products are purified single antibiotic fractions, most >99% pure. High purity EvoPure® kanamycin products can be used to analyze the specific effects of individual kanamycin fractions.
