Antigenic Specificities Related to the Cold Agglutinin Activity of Gamma M Globulins

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 161 Số 3839 - Trang 379-381 - 1968
Ralph C. Williams1, Henry G. Kunkel2, J D Capra2
1Department of Medicine, University Hospitals, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2Rockefeller University, New York

Tóm tắt

Certain antiserums prepared against isolated cold agglutinins demonstrate specificity for gamma M globulins with this activity and not for similar gamma M globulins lacking such activity. The cold agglutinin specific antigens fall into several major and minor groups. Their exact relation to the presumed antibody-combining sites remains to be determined.

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