Chemical Studies on Bacterial Agglutination: II. The Identity of Precipitin and Agglutinin

Chemical Studies on Bacterial Agglutination: II. The Identity of Precipitin and Agglutinin

Contributor(s):
Heidelberger, Michael
Journal of Experimental Medicine
Kabat, Elvin Abraham, 1914-2000
Publication:
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, May 1936
Language(s):
English
Format:
Text
Subject(s):
Antigen-Antibody Reactions
Precipitins
Agglutination
Genre(s):
Archival Materials
Articles
Abstract:
In this article, Heidelberger and his first graduate student, Elvin A. Kabat, showed that agglutination (the clumping together) and precipitation of bacterial and other antigens were not triggered by two distinct types of antibodies, as immunologists had long argued, but were two different functions of the same antibody. Agglutination of bacterial cells, they found, was a precipitin reaction on the cellular surface, and was subject to the same theory and quantitative analysis.
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Extent:
8 pages
NLM Unique ID:
101584940X19 (See in Profiles in Science)
Profiles in Science ID:
DHBBBX
Permanent Link:
http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101584940X19
Archival Collection:
The Michael Heidelberger Papers (Profiles in Science)