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Immunochemical Studies of Elastase and Antielastase¹

From the Department of Pathology, University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, California

Abstract

In quantitative precipitin studies with elastase and antielastase serum, the maximum amount of precipitate developed in the region of slight antigen excess. With a greater excess of elastase, soluble complexes were formed. Studies on the inhibition of the enzymatic activity of elastase were conducted with antielastase -globulin using elastolysis as an index of enzymatic activity. The antigen-antibody precipitates were completely inert; the elastolytic activity of the supernatants was inversely proportional to the amount of antielastase -globulin used.

Footnotes

This project was supported in part by U. S. Public Health Service grant H-1542.