= Rodney Robert Porter
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<Rodney Robert Porter> used proteolytic fragmentation to study <antibody> structure and binding. His 1958 report describes fractions that retained antigen interaction despite losing the ability to produce the same precipitation behaviour as intact antibody.
Binding and crosslinking are different functions. Separating them chemically helped connect antibody architecture with the different experimental readouts.<Separation and Isolation of Fractions of Rabbit Gamma-Globulin containing the Antibody and Antigenic Combining Sites by Rodney Robert Porter>[Public opening paragraph: digestion, precipitation, and specific inhibition]{ref}
Identity source: https://www.bioc.cam.ac.uk/about-us/history/nobel-prizes/rodney-robert-porter
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