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- Title
Development of H Activity by Human Blood-Group B Substance treated with Coffee Bean α-Galactosidase.
- Authors
WATKINS, WINIFRED M.; ZARNITZ, MARIE LUISE; KABAT, ELVIN A.
- Abstract
THE appearance of H specificity in the non-diffusible products remaining after the enzymatic destruction of A and B blood-group specificities has been observed with enzyme preparations from several different micro-organisms. Iseki and Masaki1 first reported that an A-decomposing enzyme from the bacterium Clostridium tertium destroyed the A serological activity of human saliva and hog A preparations and gave products which had H serological activity not shown by the A preparations before enzyme treatment. Enzyme preparations from the protozoan Trichomonas foetus similarly decompose A substance of human ovarian cyst and saliva origin with the disappearance of A specificity and the appearance of H specificity2. Extracts from T. foetus also contain a different enzyme which acts on human B substance with the destruction of B serological properties and the appearance of H specificity2,3, and bacterial enzymes from Bacillus cereus4 and Clostridium maebashi5 induce the same specificity changes in B substance.
- Publication
Nature, 1962, Vol 195, Issue 4847, p1204
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/1951204b0