Chloramphenicol is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, which provides bacteriostatic capability through bacterial protein synthesis inhibition. Most commonly used for plasmid selection work, chloramphenicol selects for plasmids with chloramphenicol resistance gene. For certain midiprep and maxiprep workflows, it also provides increased yields for plasmid amplification. Due to it's mode of action, chloramphenicol is useful in protein synthesis inhibition research, along with various other cell biology research.