The Journal of General Physiology, Vol 16, 937-945,
Copyright © 1933 by The Rockefeller University Press
THE REACTIONS OF HALICYSTIS AND OF VALONIA TO INJECTIONS OF CERTAIN PROTEINS
E. M. East 1 and
Benjamin White 1
1 From the Bussey Institution for Research in Applied Biology, Harvard University, Forest Hills, Massachusetts
It is shown (1) that Valonia and Halicystis cells exhibit varying degrees of tolerance to injections of animal peptone, animal proteose, crystallized egg albumen, and diphtheria toxin; (2) that Valonia cells display decreased tolerance to egg albumen in increasing dosages, although Halicystis is completely tolerant of the highest dosage used; (3) that the mortality curves of Valonia injected with egg albumen and of both Valonia and Halicystis injected with diphtheria toxin show the delayed effect characteristic of laboratory mammals when treated similarly; (4) that Valonia cells injected twice with egg albumen exhibit no change in susceptibility to its effects; and (5) that neither species of algae gives evidence of having formed antibodies against the antigens used.
Accepted on May 6, 1933