The EnzChek™ Ultra Amylase Assay Kit provides a solution-based assay featuring the speed, high sensitivity, and convenience required for measuring amylase activity or for screening amylase inhibitors in a high-throughput format. This EnzChek™ kit contains a starch derivative—the DQ™ starch substrate—that is labeled with BODIPY™ FL dye to such a degree that the fluorescence is quenched. This substrate is efficiently degraded by amylase; digestion relieves the quenching and yields highly fluorescent fragments. The accompanying increase in fluorescence is proportional to amylase activity and can be monitored with a fluorescence microplate reader or fluorometer, using standard fluorescein filters.

EnzChek™ Ultra Amylase Assay Kit Specifications:
• Label (Ex/Em): BODIPY™ FL conjugate (∼502/512 nm)
• Kit contains lyophilized substrate, 10X reaction buffer, substrate solvent, a fluorescent standard, and a detailed protocol
• Sufficient reagents are supplied for 500 assays (using a 100 μL assay volume in a 96-well microplate assay format)

Find Fluorescent Substrates for Other Glycosidases
In addition to the EnzChek™ Ultra Amylase Assay Kit, we offer kits and substrates to measure xylanase, lysozyme, β-galactosidase, and more. Review Detecting Glycosidases—Section 10.2 in the Molecular Probes™ Handbook for more information on these products.

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