Jemmerson R, Margoliash E. Specificity of the antibody response of rabbits to a self-antigen.
Nature 1979;
282:468-71. [PMID:
91974 DOI:
10.1038/282468a0]
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Abstract
The demonstration that the antigenic determinants on rabbit cytochrome c that elicit antibodies in rabbits occur in regions of variability among mammalian cytochromes c suggests the existence of an evolutionary process which eliminates genetic specificities for self-determinants.
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