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. 1949 Mar;89(3):325-38.
doi: 10.1084/jem.89.3.325.

The specific antigens of variants of Shigella sonnei

E E BAKER, W F GOEBEL, E PERLMAN

The specific antigens of variants of Shigella sonnei

E E BAKER et al. J Exp Med. 1949 Mar.

Abstract

It has been shown that phase variation of Sh. sonnei is accompanied by changes in morphology and antigenic structure. Two mutants of the Phase I organism (II(S) and II(R)), which were studied, elaborate somatic antigens which are immunologically identical. The purified lipocarbohydrate-protein antigens of the Phase I and II(S) microorganisms are chemically similar yet immunologically distinct and specific. By inference the same should hold true of the antigen of II(R), but it has not yet been investigated in this relation. It is suggested that when Sh. sonnei undergoes variation from Phase I to II(S) the immunological changes occurring are dependent upon a change in the enzyme systems responsible for the synthesis of the lipocarbohydrate-protein constituent.

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