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  1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3QU, Oxford, Great Britain

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The Author is Whitley Professor of Biochemistry at Oxford University and 1972 Nobel laureate. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Professor G. M. Edelman.

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Porter, R.R. Biochemistry of complement. La Ricerca Clin. Lab. 7, 191–197 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02881814

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