Storage Buffer: PBS, pH 7.4(1%BSA and 0.1% Sodium azide)
Background:
Metronidazole is a nitroimidazole antibiotic medication used particularly for anaerobic bacteria and protozoa. Metronidazole is an antibiotic, amebicide, and antiprotozoal.Metronidazole, taken up by diffusion, is selectively absorbed by anaerobic bacteria and sensitive protozoa. Once taken up by anaerobes, it is non-enzymatically reduced by reacting with reduced ferredoxin, which is generated by pyruvate oxido-reductase. Many of the reduced nitroso intermediates will form sulfinamides and thioether linkages with cysteine-bearing enzymes, thereby deactivating these critical enzymes. As many as 150 separate enzymes are affected.In addition or alternatively, the metronidazole metabolites are taken up into bacterial DNA, and form unstable molecules.
Alternate Names:
2-Methyl-5-nitroimidazole-1-ethanol.
Specificity Reaction:Metronidazole
Application Notes:E: 1:500-1000
Storage :
Store at –20ºC for one year. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles. At 4ºC for 2-3 weeks after reconstituted.
This product for research use only, not for use in humans, therapeutic or diagnostic procedures.