The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 74, 511-518,
Copyright, 1941, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
STUDIES ON REACTIONS RELATING TO CARBOHYDRATES AND POLYSACCHARIDES
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LXIV. ANTIGENICITY OF DEXTRAN PRODUCED BY LEUCONOSTOC MESENTEROIDES
T. H. Evans Ph.D.1,
W. Lincoln Hawkins Ph.D.1, and
Harold Hibbert D.Sc.1
1 From the Division of Industrial and Cellulose Chemistry, McGill University, Montreal
Anti-Leuconostoc mesenteroides sera have been produced in rabbits. These antisera gave precipitin reactions with relatively high dilutions of the homologous polysaccharide, dextran, having a maximum nitrogen content of 0.08 per cent. It can therefore be concluded that this dextran is a haptene.
Submitted on July 24, 1941