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Human humoral antibodies specific for primate C-type viral antigens

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Abbreviations

SSV:

the replication-defective simian sarcoma virus

SSAV:

the simian sarcoma associated helper virus

GALV:

gibbon ape lymphoma virus

BEV:

baboon endogenous virus

Gp 70 and p 28:

nomenclature for structural proteins of RNA tumor viruses (see August et al., 1974)

RIP assay:

radio-immunoprecipitation assay

PMSF:

phenyl methyl sulfonyl fluoride

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    Reinhard Kurth

  2. Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories, Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3PX, London, England

    Christine Schmitt

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Dedicated to Professor Werner Schäfer on the occasion of his 65th birthday

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Kurth, R., Schmitt, C. Human humoral antibodies specific for primate C-type viral antigens. Med Microbiol Immunol 164, 167–177 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02121312

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