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. 1969 Mar;97(3):1012–1017. doi: 10.1128/jb.97.3.1012-1017.1969

Antigens of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Characterization by Gel Filtration, Complement Fixation, and Agar-Gel Diffusion of Antigens of Gonococcal Protoplasm

Dan G Danielsson a,1, John D Schmale a, William L Peacock Jr a, James D Thayer a,2
PMCID: PMC249807  PMID: 4975742

Abstract

With the use of the agar-gel-diffusion and complement-fixation techniques, it was shown that protoplasm from different gonococcal isolates reacted with sera from some humans with a history of gonorrhea but did not react with “normal” human sera. The reactive antigen(s) could be partially separated from the other antigens by passing the gonococcal protoplasm through Sephadex G-200. The antigen(s) reacting in the gel-diffusion and complement-fixation tests appeared in the same fraction. On the basis of Sephadex gel filtration, the molecular weight of this antigen(s) is probably greater than 200,000.

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