Abstract
Abstract It has been shown by immunoelectrophoresis that tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) preparations usually contain TMV protein oligomers and that TMV protein preparations contain aggregated material in the form of disks. When these contaminations were minimized, it was possible to obtain antisera of narrow specificity and to prove the existence of antigenic determinants specific for the polymerized and monomeric forms of TMV protein, respectively. When rabbits were immunized with formalinized TMV free of contaminating protein oligomers, antisera were obtained that did not react with depolymerized protein. The monomer of TMV protein was found by quantitative precipitin tests to have an antigenic valence of about five. It can therefore no longer be disputed that TMV protein is a multideterminant antigen.
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