a lack of glycosylation. MCP may play an essential 
role in the survival of the acrosome-reacted sperma- 
tozoa by modulating C activation in the female geni- 
tal tract. 
Dr. Atkinson is also Professor of Medicine and 
Molecular Microbiology at Washington Univer- 
sity School of Medicine and Physician at Barnes 
Hospital, St. Louis. 
Books and Chapters of Books 
Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Genetic susceptibility and 
class III complement genes. In Systemic Lupus 
Erythematosus (Lahita, R.G., Ed.). New York: 
Churchill Livingstone, pp 87-102. 
Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Immune complexes and the 
role of complement. In Systemic Vasculitis 
(LeRoy, E.C., Ed.). New York: Dekker, pp 525- 
546. 
Bora, N.S., Chaplin, D.D., and Atkinson, J.P. 
1992. Restriction fragment length polymor- 
phisms of proteins of the complement system. In 
Manual of Clinical Laboratory Lmmunology 
(Rose, N.E., de Macario, E.C., Fahey, J.L., Fried- 
man, H., and Penn, G.M., Eds.). Washington, DC: 
American Society for Microbiology, pp 153-155. 
Kulczycki, A., Jr., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Urti- 
caria and angioedema. In Allergy Theory and 
Practice (Korenblat, P.E., and Wedner, HJ., 
Eds.). Philadelphia, PA: Saunders, pp 209-220. 
Liszewski, M.K., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. The 
complement system. In Lmmunology Scope 
Monograph (Schwartz, B.D., Ed.). Kalamazoo, 
MI: Upjohn, pp 111-131. 
Schwartz, B.D., Atkinson, J.P., and Braciale, T. 
1992. Intermediate and delayed hypersensitivity 
states. In Lmmunology Scope Monograph 
(Schwartz, B.D., Ed ). Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn, pp 
147-163. 
Articles 
Adams, E.M., Brown, M.C., Nunge, M., Krych, M., 
and Atkinson, J.P. 1991. Contribution of the re- 
peating domains of membrane cofactor protein 
(CD46) of the complement system to ligand bind- 
ing and cofactor activity. //mmMWo/ 147:3005- 
3011. 
Atkinson, J.P., Oglesby, T.J., White, D., Adams, 
E.A., and Liszewski, M.K. 1991- Separation of 
self from non-self in the complement system: a 
role for membrane cofactor protein and decay ac- 
celerating factor. Clin Exp Lmmunol 86:27-30. 
Cervoni, F., Oglesby, T.J., Adams, E.M., Milesi- 
Fluet, C, Nickells, M., Fenichel, P., Atkinson, 
J.P., and Hsi, B.-L. 1992. Identification and char- 
acterization of membrane cofactor protein of hu- 
man spermatozoa. //mmMno/ 148:1431-1437. 
Parries, T.C., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Evolution 
of the complement system. Lmmunol Today 
12:295-300. 
Hourcade, D., Garcia, A.D., Post, T.W., Taillon 
Miller, P., Holers, V.M., Wagner, L.M., Bora, 
N.S., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Analysis of the 
human regulators of complement activation 
(RCA) gene cluster with yeast artificial chromo- 
somes (YACs). Genomics 12:289-300. 
Krych, M., Atkinson, J.P., and Holers, V.M. 
1992. Complement receptors. Curr Opin Lm- 
munol 4:8-13. 
Liszewski, M.K., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Mem- 
brane cofactor protein. Curr Top Microbiol Lm- 
munol 178:45-60. 
Moulds, J.M., Moulds, J.J., Brown, M., and Atkin- 
son, J.P. 1992. Antiglobulin testing for CRl- 
related (Knops/McCoy/Swain-Langley/York) blood 
group antigens: negative and weak reactions are 
caused by variable expression of CRl . Vox Sang 
62:230-235. 
Oglesby, T.J., Allen, CJ., Liszewski, M.K., White, 
DJ.G., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Membrane co- 
factor protein (CD46) protects cells from com- 
plement-mediated attack by an intrinsic mecha- 
nism, f Exp Med 175:1547-1551. 
Oglesby, T.J., White, D., Tedja, 1., Liszewski, K., 
Wright, L., Van den Bogarde, J., and Atkinson, 
J.P. 1991. Protection of mammalian cells from 
complement-mediated lysis by transfection of hu- 
man membrane cofactor protein (MCP) and decay 
accelerating factor (DAF). Trans Assoc Am Phy- 
sicians 104:164-172. 
Oltvai, Z.N., Wong, E.C.C., Atkinson, J.P., and 
Tung, K.S.K. 1991. CI inhibitor deficiency: mo- 
lecular and immunologic basis of hereditary and 
acquired angioedema. Lab Lnvest 65:381-388. 
White, DJ.G., Oglesby, T., Liszewski, M.K., Tedja, 
I., Hourcade, D., Wang, M.-W., Wright, L., Wall- 
work, J., and Atkinson, J.P. 1992. Expression of 
human decay accelerating factor or membrane co- 
factor protein genes on mouse cells inhibits lysis 
by human complement. Transplant Proc 24: 
474-476. 
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