Formal Name: 8-bromo-adenosine 5′-(tetrahydrogen triphosphate), sodium salt hydrate
Purity: ≥95%
Formula Markup: C10H15BrN5O13P3 • XNa [XH2O]
Formula Weight: 586,1
Shelf life (days): 1460
Notes: 8-Bromoadenosine 5’-triphosphate (8-Br-ATP) is an analog of ATP (Item No. 14498) and an agonist of the purinergic P2X receptor.{57025} It induces contraction of isolated guinea pig bladder strips with a potency that is 0.19-fold that of ATP. 8-Br-ATP has been used in the determiniation of the nucleotide substrate specificity of yeast poly(A) polymerase.{57026} It is cytotoxic to multiple myeloma cells (IC50 = 23.1 μM).{57027}