Cell & Organelle Stains

A membrane-impermeant nucleic acid intercalator. The dye is commonly used to selectively stain dead cells in a mixed live-dead population and also used as a counterstain in multicolor fluorescent assays.

The styryl dye RH237 is a fast-responding potentiometric probe that is primarily used for functional imaging of neurons.

The styryl dye RH414 is a fast-responding potentiometric probe that is primarily used for functional imaging of neurons.

RH421 is a fast responding membrane potential dye, exhibiting >20% fluorescence change per 100 mV on neuroblastoma cells.

The styryl dye RH795 is a fast-responding potentiometric probe that is primarily used for functional imaging of neurons. The dye is spectrally similar to RH414 (61016), but exhibits different physiological effects during staining. For example, RH414 causes arterial constriction during cortex staining, while RH795 does not (see references 1,2).

Rhodamine 123 is a popular green fluorescent mitochondrial dye that stains mitochondria in living cells in a membrane potential-dependent fashion. It is widely used in flow cytometry studies involving mitochondrial membrane potential.

Rhodamine-DHPE is a rhodamine-labeled glycerophosphoethanolamine lipid that has been used in membrane fusion assays.

RuBP-2S (Ruthenium(bis(bathophenanthroline))(bathophenanthrolinedisulfonate) is a luminescent ruthenium complex similar to RuBPS (80021).

RuBP-4S ([Ruthenium(bathophenanthroline)(bis(bathophenanthrolinedisulfonate))],disodium salt) is a luminescent ruthenium complex similar to RuBPS (80021).

RuBPS (Ruthenium(tris(bathophenanthrolinedisulfonate), tetrasodium salt) is a negatively-charged water-soluble luminescent ruthenium complex. The complex can be efficiently excited by either UV light or visible light in the wavelength range from 400 nm to 500 nm with bright red emission centered around 605 nm.

SCAS (4-Sulfonato calix[8]arene, sodium salt) is a quencher developed by Biotium to reduce background fluorescence when using our fixable AM dyes, SynaptoGreen and SynaptoRed dyes. Unlike ADVASEP-7, SCAS dramatically lowers background fluorescence as soon as it is added to the preparation without the need for repeated wash steps.

Biotium developed SDIP/Eu³ as an alternative to DPA/Tb³ (80104), which is used for vesicle fusion assays.

SGC3 is a coumarin styryl dye that binds to membranes in a manner similar to the FM® dyes. It becomes highly fluorescent upon insertion into lipid bilayers.

SGC5 is a coumarin styryl dye that binds to membranes in a manner similar to the FM® dyes. It becomes highly fluorescent upon insertion into lipid bilayers.

Sulforhodamine 101 has a longer absorption wavelength than does sulforhodamine B. Like sulforhodamine B and G, in addition to their potential use in cancer drug screening, these fluorescent dyes have been primarily used as polar tracers for the studies of neuronal cell morphology and cell-cell communication.

Similar to other sulforhodamine dyes, the highly water-soluble sulforhodamine B can also be used as a polar tracer for the studies of cell morphology and neuronal cell-cell communication (1-3). In addition, sulforhodamine B has been shown to be a superior protein stain for use in the quantification of cellular proteins of cultured cells.