SummaryPoliovirus inhibitors present in normal equine and bovine sera were studied by means of radioimmunoeleetrophoresis and column chromatography. The inhibitors in individual equine sera were identified as either one of the three immunoglobulins, yM, yA(T) and yG, or mixtures of them, while those in bovine sera were found to be either one of yM and yG globulins, or the mixture of the two.The inhibitors belonging to different classes of immnnoglobulin differed in their mode of action against the virus, yM inhibitors were characterized by distinct activities in the kinetic neutralization and the plaque reduction tests. In contrast, yA(T) inhibitors were highly active in the plaque-reduction and the precipitationin-agar-gel tests, although they were inactive in the kinetics of neutralization. There were two types of yG inhibitors. One did not neutralize the virus in the kinetic test, despite its distinct virus-precipitating activity. The other could neutralize but not precipitate the virus in vitro.Avidity of the inhibitors as revealed by dissociation of virus-inhibitor complexes at acidic pH's also differed among the immunoglobulin classes of the inhibitors. The complex formed with the NaIO4-treated yA(T) inhibitor was most stable and was not dissociated even at pH as low as 2.0.