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DR. J. R. MARRACK prefaces his review of the chemistry of antigens and antibodies and the nature of the reaction between them by a short account of certain aspects of physical chemistry, including recent developments of our knowledge of the shapes and sizes of molecules and the application of this knowledge to proteins, on account of their importance in connexion with immunological specificity. The part played by polar forces in the orientation of molecules, in their distortion and in the specificity of the binding of one molecule to another, as in mixed crystal formation, is described, whilst an account of the structure and properties of different proteins, especially those of the serum, forms an excellent introduction to the main part of the review.
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Chemistry of Antigens and Antibodies. Nature 134, 468–469 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134468a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/134468a0