Summary
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 γ-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 γ-globulin used.
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↵This project was supported in part by U. S. Public Health Service grant H-1542.
- Received May 19, 1961.
- Copyright, 1962, by The Williams & Wilkins Company
- Copyright © 1962 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.
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