The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 26, 11-16,
Copyright © 1942 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE ANTIGENICITY OF d-RIBONUCLEASE; THE INHIBITION OF THE ENZYME BY ITS HOMOLOGOUS IMMUNE SERUM
J. Smolens 1 and
M. G. Sevag 1
1 From the Department of Bacteriology, The School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
The enzyme d-ribonuclease is antigenic. Antisera, prepared by three different methods, reacted against antigen dilutions up to one million.
Apparently the homologous antiserum, when combined with the d-ribonuclease inhibited the activity of the enzyme from 10 to 30 per cent.
Submitted on May 28, 1942