Applications

Kanamycin sulfate is a broad spectrum minoglycoside-antibiotic It is used as an additive in culture media for the isolation of group D Streptococci on Kanamycin Esculin Azide Agar (Mossel et al.) or for selection of transformed plant cells containing the neomycin phosphotransferase (for kanamycin resistance); on a kanamycin-medium^1,2. Kanamycin has been used for electrophysiological recordings of outer hair cells and inner hair cells³. It is used to inhibit shoot regeneration from Siberian Elmleaf explants⁴. It is recommended for use in cell culture applications at 100 mg/mL.