Acqua Stain

Protein Gel Stain

Never wash or destain again

Like Coomassie Blue only simpler

Acqua Stain is a single step protein gel dye.  This novel product doesn’t require pre- or post-treatment  of the gel.  Just run your protein gel, add the stain and watch your bands appear in several seconds. Say goodbye to destaining! Acqua Stain contains no harmful chemicals or acids, so it's much safer than standard dyes. It can even be disposed of down the sink after staining. And because Acqua Stain is a water-based product, no observable shrinkage or wrinkling of the gel occurs.  Better yet, unlike methanol-based stains, proteins isolated from Acqua Stain treated gels are 100% compatible with mass spectrometry analysis.

One-step in 10 minutes

Other “fast” gel staining technologies require expensive equipment or can poorly stain the protein bands.  And no other “fast” product is as fast as AcquaStain – completing the entire staining procedure

in about 10 minutes (for typical protein amounts) .  Don’t worry though, it is impossible to over-saturate using this product, so you can incubate overnight with no harmful effects. Only Acqua Stain provides a reasonably-priced reagent without the need for an external apparatus while delivering a super sensitive signal – equivalent or better than the best Coomassie-based reagents on the market. Protein bands literally pop out of the gel because the gel background remains crystal clear. Acqua Stain is a brilliant blue color that's totally free from precipitate. Shaking before use is not necessary – it's like nothing you’ve tried before.

Product Comparison

PRODUCT	NO PREWASH	NO DESTAIN	# OF STEPS	TOTAL TIME	SAFE DISPOSAL	CONC. LINEARITY
Acqua Stain			1	10 min		R2=0.98
Bio-Safe Coomassie Stain			3	60-120 min		R2=0.71
EZBlue Gel Stain			3	120-360 min		R2=0.91
Gelcode Safe Blue Protein Stain			4	90-360+ min		R2=0.98
Simply Blue SafeStain			3	360-420 min		R2=0.92