I really received a bashing by suggesting that Mark Davis's work
preceeded that of Kappler & Marrack. So, to set the record straight, K&M did
characterize the protein before the sequence was cloned. Mark Davis was not the
only one to clone it, but he was among the first.
Brett Lindenbach
Lucille P. Markey Student in Human Pathobiology
Program in Immunology
Washington University - St Louis
brett at borcim.wustl.edu
