LiGreen™ Nucleic Acid Gel Stains

LiGreen™ Nucleic Acid Gel Stains

LiGreen™ is a sensitive, stable and environmentally safe green fluorescent nucleic acid dye designed to stain either dsDNA, ssDNA or RNA in agarose gels. These stains are next-generation fluorescent nucleic acid gel stains designed to replace the highly mutagenic ethidium bromide (EB). These dyes are superior to EB by having a combination of high sensitivity, low toxicity and great stability.

Key Features

• Safer than EB: Shown by Ames test and other tests to be non-mutagentic and non-cytotoxic.
• Ultra-sensitive: Much more sensitive than GelGreen and SYBR Safe.
• Compatible with standard blue LED and UV transilluminators.
• Use with blue light reduces mutagenesis for gel excision and subsequent cloning.

Customer Testimonials

"I have been using LiGreen™ Ultra Nucleic Acid Gel Stain and dNTPs set (100mM each) more than one years, both products are of excellent quality and are cheaper than other companies, I will continue to use them."

------ NIH/NCI, Dr. Ping Yu, Staff Scientist

LiGreen™LiGreen™ PlusLiGreen™ UltraLiGreen™ Red
Sensitivity (dsDNA)Sensitive (~2 ng)Highly sensitive (~0.2 ng)Ultra sensitive (~60 pg)Sensitive (~1 ng)
Nonhazardous
dsDNA
ssDNA
RNA



Precast gel staining
Post-gel staining

Gel band excision for cloning
Excitation SourceBlue light/UVBlue light/UVBlue light/UVUV
Recommended emission filterSYBR filterSYBR filterSYBR filterEB filter

Case Study


Gel stain results with LiGreen™, LiGreen™ Plus, and LiGreen™ Ultra (Left), and comparison results with SYBR Safe and GelGreen (Right). Left: Two-fold serial dilutions of a 1 kb DNA ladder were loaded onto each gel in 3 lanes in the amounts of 25 ng, 50 ng and 100 ng (left to right), then post-stained with LiGreen™, LiGreen™ Plus, and LiGreen™ Ultra. Right: Results show LiGreen™ has similar sensitivity with SYBR Safe and GelGreen, LiGreen™ Plus and LiGreen™ Ultra have much better sensitivity.


Cell permeability tests with SYBR Safe, LiGreen™, LiGreen™ Plus, and LiGreen™ Red. Hela cells were incubated at 37ºC with 1× SYBR Safe, LiGreen™, LiGreen™ Plus, and LiGreen™ Red for 30 min. LiGreen™ Plus and LiGreen™ Red could not penetrate cell membranes to bind DNA in living cells, and were much safer than SYBR Safe, which rapidly entered cells and stained nuclei.

Product Name
Cat. #
Size
PriceOrder
LiGreen™ DNA Gel StainM00491 ml
$149
LiGreen™ Plus Nucleic Acid Gel StainM0050-05500 µl
$119 
LiGreen™ Plus Nucleic Acid Gel StainM0050-204×500 µl
$369
LiGreen™ Ultra Nucleic Acid Gel StainM0051500 µl
$149 
LiGreen™ Red DNA Gel StainM0054500 µl
$99
LiGreen™ Landing DyeM00522 ml
$99
LiGreen™ Red Landing DyeM00552 ml
$99

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