A rabbit antiserum against rat thymocyte membrane was studied using quantitative absorption analysis, and shown to contain a large amount of antibody against antigen(s) on lymphocytes but not liver, erythrocytes, kidney, heart, lung or brain tissue. Among lymphocytes the antigen(s) was at least 20‐fold more abundant on thymocytes or T lymphocytes than on bone marrow or B lymphocytes, and is thus referred to as a T lymphocyte antigen. In saturating binding studies with absorbed antiserum 120 000 molecules of antibody were bound per thymocyte. The T lymphocyte antigenic activity was effectively solubilized from thymocyte membrane by deoxycholate, and its hydrodynamic properties suggested that only one molecule (or a group of very similar molecules) express the activity. The S 20 , w and v̄ values of the antigen were 5.7 S and 0.73 ml/g, and the Stoke's radius was 6.2 nm; a molecular weight (including any bound deoxycholate) of 1 50 000 was calculated. All antigenic activity in deoxycholate extracts bound to a lentil lectin affinity column suggesting the antigen may be a glycoprotein. On serological and biochemical grounds the antigen was distinct from Thy‐1. In an appendix a method for determining the maximum binding of antibody per cell by absorption analysis is described.
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