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Occurrence in Plants infected with Tobacco Mosaic Virus of a Crystallizable Antigen devoid of Ribonucleic Acid

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PURIFIED preparations of tobacco mosaic virus have often been shown to be heterogeneous, some of the separated fractions being non-infective1. The latter are to some extent comparable with the ‘soluble antigens’ of animal viruses and have a bearing on the study of the mechanism of virus multiplication2. The following observations have been made on such fractions.

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JEENER, R., LEMOINE, P. Occurrence in Plants infected with Tobacco Mosaic Virus of a Crystallizable Antigen devoid of Ribonucleic Acid. Nature 171, 935–936 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171935a0

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