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ERYTHROCYTES treated intensively with a bacterial enzyme present in culture filtrates of V. choleræ are no longer agglutinable by viruses of the mumps–influenza group. During treatment with this ‘receptor-destroying enzyme’ of V. choleræ, agglutinability for the various strains is lost in a definite sequence which closely parallels the order obtained when the viruses are arranged according to the extent of their own enzymic action on the cells. This phenomenon has been termed the ‘receptor gradient’1.
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FRENCH, E., ADA, G. Repair in vivo of the Surface Structure of the Guinea Pig Erythrocyte. Nature 165, 849–850 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165849a0
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