Alexa Fluor 488™ Phalloidin is a bright, photostable green Fluorescent Alexa Fluor™ 488 dye-conjugated, high-affinity filamentous actin (F-actin) probe.

Also available as a room temperature stable, ready-to-use solution: ActinGreen 488 Ready Probes Reagent.
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• Selective staining of F-actin
• Excellent Fluorescence properties
• Excitation/emission wavelength: 495/518 nm
• Better than antibody staining
• Suitable for Fixed and permeabilized samples

Achieve excellent actin staining studies
Phalloidin is a bicyclic peptide that is classified as lethal Amanita viridis A toxin isolated from the "death cap" mushroom, which is often used to selectively label F-actin in imaging applications. Compared with antibodies, fluorescently labeled phalloidin has several advantages in labeling actin, including: its binding properties to animal and plant actin from different species are almost the same, and the non-specific binding ratio is low. Phalloidin binds F-actin with high selectivity, and Alexa Fluor™ 488 dye provides green fluorescence with excellent brightness and photostability.

Available in a variety of applications
Alexa Fluor™ 488 Phalloidin can be used to visualize and quantify F-muscle in tissue sections, cell cultures, or cell-free preparations kinesin. Alexa Fluor™ 488 Phalloidin Stain is fully compatible with other fluorescent stains used in cell analysis procedures, including fluorescent proteins, Qdot™ Nanocrystals, and other Alexa Fluor™ conjugates (including secondary antibodies).

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