A brief history of the discovery of the immunoglobulins and the origin of the modern immunoglobulin nomenclature

Immunology and Cell Biology

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-68

  Black, C Allen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

history; immunoglobulin; nomenclature

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; REVIEW;

EID: 0031040641     PISSN: 08189641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/icb.1997.10     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Nuttall G. Experimente über die bacterienfeindlichen Einflüsse des theirischen Körpers. Z. Hyg. 1888; 4: 353-95 (in German).
2. Tiselius A. Electrophoresis of serum globulin Biochem. J. 1937; 31: 313-17.
3. Ceppellini R, Dray S, Edelmen G et al. Nomenclature for Human Immunoglobulins. Bull. World Health Org. 1964; 30; 447-50.
4. Tiselius A. The moving boundary method of studying the electrophoresis of proteins. (Inaugural Dissertation; University of Uppsala, Sweden: 1930.
5. Landsteiner K, Pauli W Elektrische Wanderung der Immunostoffe. Verhandl d. XXC Kong. f. innere Med. 1908; 25: 571-4.
6. Tiselius A, Rabat EA. An electrophoretic study of immune sera and purified antibody preparations. J Exp. Med 1939; 69: 119-31.
7. Waldenström J, Incipient myleomatosis or 'essential' hyperglobulinemia with fibrinogenopema - a new syndrome? Acta Med. Scand. 1944; 67: 216-47.
8. Wallenius G, Trautman R, Kunkel HG, Franklin EC. Ultra-centrifugal studies of major non-lipide electrophoretic components of normal human serum. J. Biol. Chem. 1957; 225: 253-7.
9. 2A-globulin of human serum. Clin. Chem. Acta 1959; 4: 96-102.
10. Rowe DS, Fahey JL. A new class of human immunoglobulin. II normal serum IgD. J Exp. Med. 1965; 121: 171-84.
11. Fahey JL, Wunderlich J, Mishell R. The immunoglobulins of mice: I. Four major classes of immunoglobulin. J. Exp. Med. 1964; 120: 223-42.
12. b globulins. J. Exp. Med. 1964; 120: 243-51.
13. Ishizaka K, Ishizaka T, Hornbrook M. Physicochemical properties of reaginic antibody. V. Correlation of reaginic activity and γE-globulin antibody. J. Immunol. 1966; 97: 840-53.
14. Ishizaka K, Ishizaka T, Hornbrook M. Physicochemical properties of reaginic antibody. IV. presence of a unique immunoglobulin as a carrier of reaginic activity. J. Immunol. 1966; 97: 75-85.
15. Johansson SG, Bennich H. Immunological studies of an atypical myeloma immunoglobulin. Immunology 1967; 13: 381-94.
16. Prausnitz C, Küstner H. Studien über die Ueberempfindlichkeit. Centralbl. f. Bakteriol. 1921; 86: 160-76 (in German).
17. Silverstein AM. A History of Immunology. San Diego: Academic Press. 1989.
18. Jones HB. Papers on chemical pathology; prefaced by the Gulstonian lectures read at the Royal College of Physicians, 1846, Lecture 3. Lancet 1846; 2: 88-92.
19. Putnam FW. From the first to the last of the immunoglobulins: Perspectives and prospects. Clin. Physiol. Biochem. 1983; 1: 63-91.
20. Korngold L, Lipari R. Multiple myeloma proteins. III. The antigenic relationship of Bence-Jones proteins to normal gamma-globulin and multiple myeloma serum proteins. Cancer 1956; 9: 262-72.
21. Burtin P. The proteins of normal human plasma. In: Grabar P, Burtin P, eds. Immuno-Electrophoretic Analysis. Amsterdam: Elsevier Publishing Co., 1964; 94-5.