Correlations between the presence of surface coat and immobilization antigen of Paramecium

What is it about?

Supravital, partial removal of the surface coat resulted in accelerated response of monobacterially and axenically grown cells to the homologous antiserum. Cells pretreated with trypsin or pronase (0.5 mg/ml for 45 min at 0-4 ~ C) were immobilized approximately twice as fast as untreated control cells.

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Why is it important?

Supravital protease pretreatment of P. tetraurelia cells increased the speed of the immobilization reaction with homologous antiserum

Perspectives

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The probable localization of at least part, of the immobilization antigen within the surface coat of Paramecium was described. The full title of this publication is: 'Studies on the Surface Coat of Paramecium aurelia.II. Relationship to the Immobilization Antigen' by Elżbieta Wyroba

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