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Coelenterate nematocysts bind immunoglobulins

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Nematocyst capsules ofActinia equina were shown to bind immunoglobulins. Binding is not affected by EDTA-pretreatment or incubation with N-acetyl-galactosamine and N-acetyl-glucosamine.

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  1. Research School of Biological Sciences Department of Neurobiology, Australian National University, P. O. Box 475, 2601, Canberra, A. C. T., Australia

    H. G. de Couet

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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Ste 105/19-21).

I wish to thank Drs Ute Groeschel-Stewart, Darmstadt, and Helmut Schuhmacher, Bochum, for helpful discussion.

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de Couet, H.G. Coelenterate nematocysts bind immunoglobulins. Experientia 38, 353–354 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01949388

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