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IN their paper on the antigenic role of nucleic acid Lackman et al. 1 have shown that pneumococcal horse serum can be absorbed by homologous carbohydrate, nucleic acid ‘precipitins’ remaining intact. They have demonstrated in a series of absorption tests that the two ‘precipitins’ in question are serologically distinct. The authors suppose that they are formed in course of immunization with pneumococci.
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KOHOUTOVÁ, M. Immunization with Biologically Active Fractions of Deoxyribonucleic Acid and Subsequent Specific Infection of Mice. Nature 184, 1965–1966 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841965a0
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