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. 1948 Feb 29;87(3):199–209. doi: 10.1084/jem.87.3.199

STUDIES ON A PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME IN HUMAN PLASMA

I. THE PROBABLE IDENTITY OF THE ENZYMES ACTIVATED BY CHLOROFORM AND BY FILTRATES OF CULTURES OF BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI

Oscar D Ratnoff 1
PMCID: PMC2135774  PMID: 18908222

Abstract

1. The experiments reported suggest that the plasma proteolytic enzyme activated by streptococcal fibrinolysin is identical with that activated by chloroform. 2. The precursor of this plasma proteolytic enzyme is precipitated with the euglobulin fraction of plasma at pH 5.2.

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