The Journal of Immunology, 1972, 109: 434-438.
Copyright © 1972 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.
Immune Hemolysis and the Functional Properties of the Second (C2) and Fourth (C4) Components of Complement
IV. Formation of EAC
by Treatment of C2 with Trypsin in the Presence of EAC4
Michael Loos1,
Tibor Borsos and
Herbert J. Rapp
From the Institute of Medical Microbiology, J. Gutenberg University, Mainz, West Germany and the Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014
Abstract
Treatment of guinea pig or human C2 with trypsin in the presence of EAC4 leads to the formation of EAC
. The kinetics of EAC
generation, the nature of the C2 dose response curve and the nature of the decay curve of SA
all indicated that EAC
formed by the action of trypsin on C2 are not distinguishable from EAC
generated by the interaction of EAC
4 and C2. The data support the hypothesis that C
is a trypsin-like enzyme.
Footnotes
1 Guest worker in the Biology Branch, National Cancer Institute. Supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Lo. 188/1.
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