Summary
Heat-labile factors, resembling C′1 and C′2, and a hydrazine-sensitive factor resembling C′4 are required for the inactivation of C′3 by zymosan.
Certain similarities exist between the interaction of C′ with zymosan and with sensitized and unsensitized red cells and bacteria.
Footnotes
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↵1 This investigation was supported in part by a grant from Lederle Laboratories Division, American Cyanamid Company, and in part by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service.
- Received June 22, 1953.
- Copyright © 1953 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.
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The Requirement for a Hydrazine-Sensitive Serum Factor and Heat-Labile Serum Factors in the Inactivation of Human C′3 by Zymosan
