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ALTHOUGH the combination of antibody with tobacco mosaic virus is reversible1, it does not necessarily follow that dissociating the antibody restores infectivity. Inactivation could be permanent despite the reversibility of the antibody - virus reaction. Several reports have indicated, however, that antibody inactivation of tobacco mosaic virus is not entirely irreversible.
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RAPPAPORT, I. Recovery of Infectious Nucleic Acid from Tobacco Mosaic Virus inactivated by Antibody. Nature 184, 1732–1733 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841732a0
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