The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 87, 199-209,
Copyright, 1948, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
STUDIES ON A PROTEOLYTIC ENZYME IN HUMAN PLASMA
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I. THE PROBABLE IDENTITY OF THE ENZYMES ACTIVATED BY CHLOROFORM AND BY FILTRATES OF CULTURES OF BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI
Oscar D. Ratnoff M.D.1
1 From the Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore
1. The experiments reported suggest that the plasma proteolytic enzyme activated by streptococcal fibrinolysin is identical with that activated by chloroform.
2. The precursor of this plasma proteolytic enzyme is precipitated with the euglobulin fraction of plasma at pH 5.2.
Submitted on November 13, 1947