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. 1960 Jan 1;111(1):107–117. doi: 10.1084/jem.111.1.107

STUDIES ON THE ANTIGENIC PROPERTIES OF COMPLEMENT

II. ANALYSIS OF SPECIFIC AGGLUTININS AGAINST CERTAIN COMPONENTS OF GUINEA PIG COMPLEMENT FIXED ON SENSITIZED SHEEP ERYTHROCYTES

Paul G Klein 1, Peter M Burkholder 1
PMCID: PMC2137193  PMID: 14409703

Abstract

Sheep erythrocytes sensitized with amboceptor and persensitized thereafter with guinea pig complement are agglutinated by rabbit anti-guinea pig globulin and by immune sera obtained by injection of rabbits with fixed complement. In this agglutination neither C'1 nor C'2 takes part. Fixed C'4 acts as an agglutinogen. An additional agglutinogen, distinct from C'4, was found on persensitized cells. This additional agglutinogen appears to be distinct from hemolytically active C'3.

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