John F. March

TL;DR: The recommended method offers a consolidation of the recent modifications of the alditol acetate procedure for the estimation of neutral sugars and is applicable only to highly purified fiber preparations which are free of coprecipitated intracellular compounds.

TL;DR: C-reactive protein was discovered by Tillett and Francis’ in the sera of patients with various infectious and inflammatory diseases as a material which precipitated pneumococcal C-polysaccharide (CPS) and was called the “acute phase protein” and this term was subsequently applied to the large number of other plasma proteins.

TL;DR: An improved column performance on the previously used nonpolar OV silicone phase has been obtained by using a mildly polar OV phase and a modified technique developed which has been found to give improved results.

TL;DR: Estimation of the molecular weights and analysis of their amino acid composition, glycosylation and partial amino-terminal amino acid sequences establish that plaice C-reactive protein and serum amyloid P component are homologous with each other and with their human counterparts and indicate that there has been stable conservation of this protein family throughout vertebrate evolution.

TL;DR: Using a combination of gene sequencing and expression in a heterologous host, it is believed that the gene corresponding to the convicilin locus is characterized, whereas the gene described by D. Bown et al. (1988, Biochem J.,251, 717–726) probably encodes a minor convicILin-related protein.