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Troldborg A, Godnic-Polai Z, Cervenak L, Hansen AG, Farkas H, Thiel S. Inter-α-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain 4 (ITIH4) as a compensatory protease inhibitor in hereditary angioedema. J Allergy Clin Immunol 2024:S0091-6749(24)00405-6. [PMID: 38657796 DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2024.03.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2024] [Revised: 03/14/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024]
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BACKGROUND Hereditary angioedema (HAE) is a genetic disorder that manifests as recurrent angioedema attacks, most frequently due to absent or reduced C1 inhibitor (C1INH) activity. C1INH is a crucial regulator of enzymatic cascades in the complement, fibrinolytic, and contact systems. Inter-α-trypsin inhibitor heavy chain 4 (ITIH4) is an abundant plasma protease inhibitor that can inhibit enzymes in the proteolytic pathways associated with HAE. Nothing is known about its role in HAE. OBJECTIVE We investigated ITIH4 activation in HAE, establishing it as a potential biomarker, and explored its involvement in HAE-associated proteolytic pathways. METHODS Specific immunoassays for noncleaved ITIH4 (intact ITIH4) and an assay detecting both intact and cleaved ITIH4 (total ITIH4) were developed. We initially tested serum samples from HAE patients (n = 20), angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor-induced edema patients (ACEI) (n = 20), and patients with HAE of unknown cause (HAE-UNK) (n = 20). Validation involved an extended cohort of 80 HAE patients (60 with HAE-C1INH type 1, 20 with HAE-C1INH type 2), including samples taken during attack and quiescent disease periods, as well as samples from 100 healthy controls. RESULTS In 63% of HAE patients, intact ITIH4 assay showed lower signals than total ITIH4 assay. This difference was not observed in ACEI and HAE-UNK patients. Western blot analysis confirmed cleaved ITIH4 with low intact ITIH4 samples. In serum samples lacking intact endogenous ITIH4, we observed immediate cleavage of added recombinant ITIH4, suggesting continuous enzymatic activity in the serum. Confirmatory HAE cohort analysis revealed significantly lower intact ITIH4 levels in both type 1 and type 2 HAE patients compared to controls, with consistently low intact/total ITIH4 ratios during clinical HAE attacks. CONCLUSION The disease-specific low intact ITIH4 levels highlight its unique nature in HAE. ITIH4 may exhibit compensatory mechanisms in HAE, suggesting its utility as a diagnostic and prognostic biomarker. The variations during quiescent and active disease periods raise intriguing questions about the dynamics of proteolytic pathways in HAE.
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- Anne Troldborg
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Hungarian Angioedema Center of Reference and Excellence, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Internal Medicine and Haematology, Hungarian Angioedema Center of Reference and Excellence, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Lorentzen J, Olesen HG, Hansen AG, Thiel S, Birkelund S, Andersen CBF, Andersen GR. Trypanosoma brucei Invariant Surface gp65 Inhibits the Alternative Pathway of Complement by Accelerating C3b Degradation. J Immunol 2023; 211:862-873. [PMID: 37466368 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2300128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2023] [Accepted: 06/30/2023] [Indexed: 07/20/2023]
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Trypanosomes are known to activate the complement system on their surface, but they control the cascade in a manner such that the cascade does not progress into the terminal pathway. It was recently reported that the invariant surface glycoprotein ISG65 from Trypanosoma brucei interacts reversibly with complement C3 and its degradation products, but the molecular mechanism by which ISG65 interferes with complement activation remains unknown. In this study, we show that ISG65 does not interfere directly with the assembly or activity of the two C3 convertases. However, ISG65 acts as a potent inhibitor of C3 deposition through the alternative pathway in human and murine serum. Degradation assays demonstrate that ISG65 stimulates the C3b to iC3b converting activity of complement factor I in the presence of the cofactors factor H or complement receptor 1. A structure-based model suggests that ISG65 promotes a C3b conformation susceptible to degradation or directly bridges factor I and C3b without contact with the cofactor. In addition, ISG65 is observed to form a stable ternary complex with the ligand binding domain of complement receptor 3 and iC3b. Our data suggest that ISG65 supports trypanosome complement evasion by accelerating the conversion of C3b to iC3b through a unique mechanism.
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- Josefine Lorentzen
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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Pedersen DV, Gytz H, Winkler MBL, Zarantonello A, Baumann N, Hansen AG, Thiel S, Andersen GR, Valerius T, Laursen NS. Bispecific Complement Engagers for Targeted Complement Activation. J Immunol 2023:ji2200952. [PMID: 37350633 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2200952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/29/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023]
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Activation of the complement system represents an important effector mechanism of endogenous and therapeutic Abs. However, efficient complement activation is restricted to a subset of Abs due to the requirement of multivalent interactions between the Ab Fc regions and the C1 complex. In the present study, we demonstrate that Fc-independent recruitment of C1 by modular bispecific single-domain Abs that simultaneously bind C1q and a surface Ag can potently activate the complement system. Using Ags from hematological and solid tumors, we show that these bispecific Abs are cytotoxic to human tumor cell lines that express the Ag and that the modular design allows a functional exchange of the targeting moiety. Direct comparison with clinically approved Abs demonstrates a superior ability of the bispecific Abs to induce complement-dependent cytotoxicity. The efficacy of the bispecific Abs to activate complement strongly depends on the epitope of the C1q binding Ab, demonstrating that the spatial orientation of the C1 complex upon Ag engagement is a critical factor for efficient complement activation. Collectively, our data provide insight into the mechanism of complement activation and provide a new platform for the development of immunotherapies.
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- Dennis V Pedersen
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunotherapy, Department of Medicine II, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
- Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunotherapy, Department of Medicine II, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
- Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus C, Denmark
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Medjeral-Thomas NR, Troldborg A, Hansen AG, Pihl R, Clarke CL, Peters JE, Thomas DC, Willicombe M, Palarasah Y, Botto M, Pickering MC, Thiel S. Protease inhibitor plasma concentrations associate with COVID-19 infection. Oxf Open Immunol 2021; 2:iqab014. [PMID: 34458849 PMCID: PMC8371939 DOI: 10.1093/oxfimm/iqab014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2021] [Revised: 06/24/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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Protease inhibitors influence a range of innate immunity and inflammatory pathways. We quantified plasma concentrations of key anti-inflammatory protease inhibitors in chronic haemodialysis patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The samples were collected early in the disease course to determine whether plasma protease inhibitor levels associated with the presence and severity of COVID-19. We used antibody-based immunoassays to measure plasma concentrations of C1 esterase inhibitor, alpha2-macroglobulin, antithrombin and inter-alpha-inhibitor heavy chain 4 (ITIH4) in 100 serial samples from 27 haemodialysis patients with COVID-19. ITIH4 was tested in two assays, one measuring intact ITIH4 and another also detecting any fragmented ITIH4 (total ITIH4). Control cohorts were 32 haemodialysis patients without COVID-19 and 32 healthy controls. We compared protease inhibitor concentration based on current and future COVID-19 severity and with C-reactive protein. Results were adjusted for repeated measures and multiple comparisons. Analysis of all available samples demonstrated lower plasma C1 esterase inhibitor and α2M and higher total ITIH4 in COVID-19 compared with dialysis controls. These differences were also seen in the first sample collected after COVID-19 diagnosis, a median of 4 days from diagnostic swab. Plasma ITIH4 levels were higher in severe than the non-severe COVID-19. Serum C-reactive protein correlated positively with plasma levels of antithrombin, intact ITIH4 and total ITIH4. In conclusion, plasma protease inhibitor concentrations are altered in COVID-19.
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- Nicholas R Medjeral-Thomas
- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, UK
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Chemical Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, UK
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, UK
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, UK
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, UK
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Department of Cancer & Inflammation Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Pihl R, Jensen RK, Poulsen EC, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Thøgersen IB, Dobó J, Gál P, Andersen GR, Enghild JJ, Thiel S. ITIH4 acts as a protease inhibitor by a novel inhibitory mechanism. Sci Adv 2021; 7:7/2/eaba7381. [PMID: 33523981 PMCID: PMC7793589 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba7381] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2019] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Inter-α-inhibitor heavy chain 4 (ITIH4) is a poorly characterized plasma protein that is proteolytically processed in multiple pathological conditions. However, no biological function of ITIH4 has been identified. Here, we show that ITIH4 is cleaved by several human proteases within a protease-susceptible region, enabling ITIH4 to function as a protease inhibitor. This is exemplified by its inhibition of mannan-binding lectin-associated serine protease-1 (MASP-1), MASP-2, and plasma kallikrein, which are key proteases for intravascular host defense. Mechanistically, ITIH4 acts as bait that, upon cleavage, forms a noncovalent, inhibitory complex with the executing protease that depends on the ITIH4 von Willebrand factor A domain. ITIH4 inhibits the MASPs by sterically preventing larger protein substrates from accessing their active sites, which remain accessible and fully functional toward small substrates. Thus, we demonstrate that ITIH4 functions as a protease inhibitor by a previously undescribed inhibitory mechanism.
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- Rasmus Pihl
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Enzymology, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Medjeral-Thomas NR, Troldborg A, Hansen AG, Gisby J, Clarke CL, Prendecki M, McAdoo SP, Sandhu E, Lightstone L, Thomas DC, Willicombe M, Botto M, Peters JE, Pickering MC, Thiel S. Plasma Lectin Pathway Complement Proteins in Patients With COVID-19 and Renal Disease. Front Immunol 2021; 12:671052. [PMID: 33995410 PMCID: PMC8118695 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2021.671052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2021] [Accepted: 04/12/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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We do not understand why non-white ethnicity and chronic kidney disease increase susceptibility to COVID-19. The lectin pathway of complement activation is a key contributor to innate immunity and inflammation. Concentrations of plasma lectin pathway proteins influence pathway activity and vary with ethnicity. We measured circulating lectin proteins in a multi-ethnic cohort of chronic kidney disease patients with and without COVID19 infection to determine if lectin pathway activation was contributing to COVID19 severity. We measured 11 lectin proteins in serial samples from a cohort of 33 patients with chronic kidney impairment and COVID19. Controls were single plasma samples from 32 patients on dialysis and 32 healthy individuals. We demonstrated multiple associations between recognition molecules and associated proteases of the lectin pathway and COVID-19, including COVID-19 severity. Some of these associations were unique to patients of Asian and White ethnicity. Our novel findings demonstrate that COVID19 infection alters the concentration of plasma lectin proteins and some of these changes were linked to ethnicity. This suggests a role for the lectin pathway in the host response to COVID-19 and suggest that variability within this pathway may contribute to ethnicity-associated differences in susceptibility to severe COVID-19.
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- Nicholas R. Medjeral-Thomas
- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
- *Correspondence: Nicholas R. Medjeral-Thomas,
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service (NHS) Trust, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Inflammatory Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Pedersen H, Jensen RK, Jensen JMB, Fox R, Pedersen DV, Olesen HG, Hansen AG, Christiansen D, Mazarakis SMM, Lojek N, Hansen P, Gadeberg TAF, Zarantonello A, Laursen NS, Mollnes TE, Johnson MB, Stevens B, Thiel S, Andersen GR. A Complement C3-Specific Nanobody for Modulation of the Alternative Cascade Identifies the C-Terminal Domain of C3b as Functional in C5 Convertase Activity. J Immunol 2020; 205:2287-2300. [PMID: 32938727 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2000752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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The complement system is an intricate cascade of the innate immune system and plays a key role in microbial defense, inflammation, organ development, and tissue regeneration. There is increasing interest in developing complement regulatory and inhibitory agents to treat complement dysfunction. In this study, we describe the nanobody hC3Nb3, which is specific for the C-terminal C345c domain of human and mouse complement component C3/C3b/C3c and potently inhibits C3 cleavage by the alternative pathway. A high-resolution structure of the hC3Nb3-C345c complex explains how the nanobody blocks proconvertase assembly. Surprisingly, although the nanobody does not affect classical pathway-mediated C3 cleavage, hC3Nb3 inhibits classical pathway-driven hemolysis, suggesting that the C-terminal domain of C3b has an important function in classical pathway C5 convertase activity. The hC3Nb3 nanobody binds C3 with low nanomolar affinity in an SDS-resistant complex, and the nanobody is demonstrated to be a powerful reagent for C3 detection in immunohistochemistry and flow cytometry. Overall, the hC3Nb3 nanobody represents a potent inhibitor of both the alternative pathway and the terminal pathway, with possible applications in complement research, diagnostics, and therapeutics.
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- Henrik Pedersen
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Research Laboratory, Nordland Hospital, 8092 Bodø, Norway.,K.G. Jebsen Thrombosis Research and Expertise Center, University of Tromsø, 9037 Tromsø, Norway.,Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital, University of Oslo, 0318 Oslo, Norway.,Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway; and
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142.,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark;
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Laursen NS, Pedersen DV, Gytz H, Zarantonello A, Bernth Jensen JM, Hansen AG, Thiel S, Andersen GR. Functional and Structural Characterization of a Potent C1q Inhibitor Targeting the Classical Pathway of the Complement System. Front Immunol 2020; 11:1504. [PMID: 32849513 PMCID: PMC7396675 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.01504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 06/09/2020] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
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The classical pathway of complement is important for protection against pathogens and in maintaining tissue homeostasis, but excessive or aberrant activation is directly linked to numerous pathologies. We describe the development and in vitro characterization of C1qNb75, a single domain antibody (nanobody) specific for C1q, the pattern recognition molecule of the classical pathway. C1qNb75 binds to the globular head modules of human C1q with sub-nanomolar affinity and impedes classical pathway mediated hemolysis by IgG and IgM. Crystal structure analysis revealed that C1qNb75 recognizes an epitope primarily located in the C1q B-chain that overlaps with the binding sites of IgG and IgM. Thus, C1qNb75 competitively prevents C1q from binding to IgG and IgM causing blockade of complement activation by the classical pathway. Overall, C1qNb75 represents a high-affinity nanobody-based inhibitor of IgG- and IgM-mediated activation of the classical pathway and may serve as a valuable reagent in mechanistic and functional studies of complement, and as an efficient inhibitor of complement under conditions of excessive CP activation.
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- Nick S Laursen
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Pedersen DV, Rösner T, Hansen AG, Andersen KR, Thiel S, Andersen GR, Valerius T, Laursen NS. Recruitment of properdin by bi-specific nanobodies activates the alternative pathway of complement. Mol Immunol 2020; 124:200-210. [PMID: 32599335 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2020.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2020] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Accepted: 06/01/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
The complement system represents a powerful part of the innate immune system capable of removing pathogens and damaged host cells. Nevertheless, only a subset of therapeutic antibodies are capable of inducing complement dependent cytotoxicity, which has fuelled the search for new strategies to potentiate complement activation. Properdin (FP) functions as a positive complement regulator by stabilizing the alternative pathway C3 convertase. Here, we explore a novel strategy for direct activation of the alternative pathway of complement using bi-specific single domain antibodies (nanobodies) that recruit endogenous FP to a cell surface. As a proof-of-principle, we generated bi-specific nanobodies with specificity toward FP and the validated cancer antigen epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and tested their ability to activate complement onto cancer cell lines expressing EGFR. Treatment led to recruitment of FP, complement activation and significant deposition of C3 fragments on the cells in a manner sensitive to the geometry of FP recruitment. The bi-specific nanobodies induced complement dependent lysis of baby hamster kidney cells expressing human EGFR but were unable to lyse human tumour cells due to the presence of complement regulators. Our results confirm that FP can function as a surface bound focal point for initiation of complement activation independent of prior C3b deposition. However, recruitment of FP by bi-specific nanobodies appears insufficient for overcoming the inhibitory action of the negative complement regulators overexpressed by many human tumour cell lines. Our data provide general information on the efficacy of properdin as an initiator of complement but suggest that properdin recruitment on its own may have limited utility as a platform for potent complement activation on regulated cell surfaces.
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- Dennis V Pedersen
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds vej 10 C, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Section for Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunotherapy, Department of Medicine II, Christian-Albrechts-University, Rosalind-Franklin-Straße 12, 24103 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Høgh-Guldbergs Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds vej 10 C, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Høgh-Guldbergs Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds vej 10 C, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Section for Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunotherapy, Department of Medicine II, Christian-Albrechts-University, Rosalind-Franklin-Straße 12, 24103 Kiel, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Center for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Gustav Wieds vej 10 C, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Pedersen H, Jensen RK, Hansen AG, Gadeberg TAF, Thiel S, Laursen NS, Andersen GR. A C3-specific nanobody that blocks all three activation pathways in the human and murine complement system. J Biol Chem 2020; 295:8746-8758. [PMID: 32376685 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra119.012339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2019] [Revised: 04/28/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The complement system is a tightly controlled proteolytic cascade in the innate immune system, which tags intruding pathogens and dying host cells for clearance. An essential protein in this process is complement component C3. Uncontrolled complement activation has been implicated in several human diseases and disorders and has spurred the development of therapeutic approaches that modulate the complement system. Here, using purified proteins and several biochemical assays and surface plasmon resonance, we report that our nanobody, hC3Nb2, inhibits C3 deposition by all complement pathways. We observe that the hC3Nb2 nanobody binds human native C3 and its degradation products with low nanomolar affinity and does not interfere with the endogenous regulation of C3b deposition mediated by Factors H and I. Using negative stain EM analysis and functional assays, we demonstrate that hC3Nb2 inhibits the substrate-convertase interaction by binding to the MG3 and MG4 domains of C3 and C3b. Furthermore, we notice that hC3Nb2 is cross-reactive and inhibits the lectin and alternative pathway in murine serum. We conclude that hC3Nb2 is a potent, general, and versatile inhibitor of the human and murine complement cascades. Its cross-reactivity suggests that this nanobody may be valuable for analysis of complement activation within animal models of both acute and chronic diseases.
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- Henrik Pedersen
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Holers VM, Borodovsky A, Scheinman RI, Ho N, Ramirez JR, Dobó J, Gál P, Lindenberger J, Hansen AG, Desai D, Pihl R, Thiel S, Banda NK. Key Components of the Complement Lectin Pathway Are Not Only Required for the Development of Inflammatory Arthritis but Also Regulate the Transcription of Factor D. Front Immunol 2020; 11:201. [PMID: 32153567 PMCID: PMC7046807 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2020.00201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The complement system plays an important role in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Besides driving lectin pathway (LP) activation, the mannan-binding lectin (MBL)-associated serine proteases (MASPs) also play a key role in regulating the alternative pathway (AP). We evaluated the effects of N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc)-conjugated MASP-1 and MASP-2 duplexes in vitro and in mice with and without arthritis to examine whether knockdown of MASP-1 and MASP-2 expression affects the development of arthritis. GalNAc-siRNAs for MASP-1 and MASP-2 demonstrated robust silencing of MASP-1 or MASP-2 at pM concentrations in vitro. To evaluate the impact of silencing in arthritic mice, we used the collagen antibody-induced arthritis (CAIA) mouse model of RA. Mice were injected a 10 mg/kg dose of GalNAc-siRNAs 3x s.q. prior to the induction of CAIA. Liver gene expression was examined using qRT-PCR, and protein levels were confirmed in the circulation by sandwich immunoassays and Western blot. At day 10, CAIA mice separately treated with MASP-1 and MASP-2 duplexes had a specific reduction in expression of liver MASP-1 (70–95%, p < 0.05) and MASP-2 (90%, p < 0.05) mRNA, respectively. MASP-1-siRNA treatment resulted in a 95% reduction in levels of MASP-1 protein in circulation with no effect on MASP-2 levels and clinical disease activity (CDA). In mice injected with MASP-2 duplex, there was a significant (p < 0.05) 90% decrease in ex vivo C4b deposition on mannan, with nearly complete elimination of MASP-2 in the circulation. MASP-2 silencing initially significantly decreased CDA by 60% but subsequently changed to a 40% decrease vs. control. Unexpectedly, GalNAc-siRNA-mediated knockdown of MASP-1 and MASP-2 revealed a marked effect of these proteins on the transcription of FD under normal physiological conditions, whereas LPS-induced inflammatory conditions reversed this effect on FD levels. LPS is recognized by Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4), we found MBL not only binds to TLR4 an interaction with a Kd of 907 nM but also upregulated FD expression in differentiated adipocytes. We show that MASP-2 knockdown impairs the development of RA and that the interrelationship between proteins of the LP and the AP may extend to the transcriptional modulation of the FD gene.
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- V Michael Holers
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Institute of Enzymology, Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Alnylam Pharmaceutical Inc., Boston, MA, United States
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, United States
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Michalski M, Pągowska-Klimek I, Thiel S, Świerzko AS, Hansen AG, Jensenius JC, Cedzyński M. Factors involved in initiation and regulation of complement lectin pathway influence postoperative outcome after pediatric cardiac surgery involving cardiopulmonary bypass. Sci Rep 2019; 9:2930. [PMID: 30814659 PMCID: PMC6393526 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-39742-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2018] [Accepted: 02/01/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Congenital heart disease (CHD) often requires surgical intervention, and is sometimes associated with life-threatening post-operative complications. We have investigated some factors of the innate immune system involved in the initiation or regulation of complement lectin pathway activation (MASP-1, MASP-2 MASP-3, MAp19, MAp44, ficolin-3) and related them to complications and prognosis in 190 pediatric patients undergoing CHD repair with the use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). Patients with MAp44 levels ≤1.81 µg/ml more frequently experienced low cardiac output syndrome (LCOS), renal insufficiency, systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and multiorgan dysfunction (MODS). Low MASP-3 (≤5.18 µg/ml) and high MASP-1 (≥11.7 µg/ml) levels were often associated with fatal outcome. Low ficolin-3 concentrations (≤10.1 µg/ml) were more common among patients experiencing SIRS and MODS than in those without complications. However, patients suffering from SIRS and MODS with low ficolin-3 had a much better prognosis (91% survival vs. 37% among other patients; p = 0.007). A discriminating value of 12.7 µg/ml ficolin-3 yielded 8% vs. 60% mortality (p = 0.001). Our data extend the knowledge concerning involvement of proteins of the lectin pathway in development of post-CPB complications. The potential prognostic value of low preoperative MAp44 and high preoperative ficolin-3 seems promising and warrants independent confirmation.
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- Mateusz Michalski
- Laboratory of Immunobiology of Infections, Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland
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- Department of Pediatric Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Immunobiology of Infections, Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland
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- Laboratory of Immunobiology of Infections, Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland.
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Yatime L, Merle NS, Hansen AG, Friis NA, Østergaard JA, Bjerre M, Roumenina LT, Thiel S, Kristensen P, Andersen GR. A Single-Domain Antibody Targeting Complement Component C5 Acts as a Selective Inhibitor of the Terminal Pathway of the Complement System and Thus Functionally Mimicks the C-Terminal Domain of the Staphylococcus aureus SSL7 Protein. Front Immunol 2018; 9:2822. [PMID: 30555486 PMCID: PMC6281825 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.02822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The complement system is an efficient anti-microbial effector mechanism. On the other hand abnormal complement activation is involved in the pathogenesis of multiple inflammatory and hemolytic diseases. As general inhibition of the complement system may jeopardize patient health due to increased susceptibility to infections, the development of pathway-specific complement therapeutics has been a long-lasting goal over the last decades. In particular, pathogen mimicry has been considered as a promising approach for the design of selective anti-complement drugs. The C-terminal domain of staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 7 (SSL7), a protein secreted by Staphylococcus aureus, was recently found to be a specific inhibitor of the terminal pathway of the complement system, providing selective inhibition of cell lysis mediated by the membrane attack complex (MAC). We describe here the selection by phage display of a humanized single-domain antibody (sdAb) mimicking the C-terminal domain of SSL7. The antibody, called sdAb_E4, binds complement C5 with an affinity in the low micromolar range. Furthermore, sdAb_E4 induces selective inhibition of MAC-mediated lysis, allowing inhibition of red blood cell hemolysis and inhibition of complement deposition on apopto-necrotic cells, while maintaining efficient bactericidal activity of the complement terminal pathway. Finally, we present preliminary results indicating that sdAb_E4 may also be efficient in inhibiting hemolysis of erythrocytes from patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria. Our data provide a proof of concept for the design of a selective MAC inhibitor capable of retaining complement bacteriolytic activity and this study opens up promising perspectives for the development of an sdAb_E4-derived therapeutics with application in the treatment of complement-mediated hemolytic disorders.
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- Laure Yatime
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM, UMR_S 1138, Paris, France
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM, UMR_S 1138, Paris, France
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- The Medical Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Medicine, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- The Medical Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Medicine, Endocrinology and Internal Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers, INSERM, UMR_S 1138, Paris, France
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Chemistry and Bioscience, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Holers VM, Desai D, Scheinman RI, Ramirez JR, Khan N, Hansen AG, Thiel S, Borodovsky A, Banda NK. Effects on arthritis of RNAi-mediated targeting of liver expression of mannan-binding lectin associated serine protease 1 and 2. Mol Immunol 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2018.06.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Banda NK, Desai D, Scheinman RI, Pihl R, Sekine H, Fujita T, Sharma V, Hansen AG, Garred P, Thiel S, Borodovsky A, Holers VM. Targeting of Liver Mannan-Binding Lectin-Associated Serine Protease-3 with RNA Interference Ameliorates Disease in a Mouse Model of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Immunohorizons 2018; 2:274-295. [PMID: 30417171 PMCID: PMC6220895 DOI: 10.4049/immunohorizons.1800053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
Abstract
Mannan-binding lectin–associated serine protease 3 (MASP-3) regulates the alternative pathway of complement and is predominantly synthesized in the liver. The role of liver-derived MASP-3 in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is unknown. We hypothesized that liver-derived MASP-3 is essential for the development of joint damage and that targeted inhibition of MASP-3 in the liver can attenuate arthritis. We used MASP-3–specific small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) conjugated to N-acetylgalactosamine (GalNAc) to specifically target the liver via asialoglycoprotein receptors. Active GalNAc–MASP3–siRNA conjugates were identified, and in vivo silencing of liver MASP-3 mRNA was demonstrated in healthy mice. The s.c. treatment with GalNAc–MASP-3–siRNAs specifically decreased the expression of MASP-3 in the liver and the level of MASP-3 protein in circulation of mice without affecting the levels of the other spliced products. In mice with collagen Ab–induced arthritis, s.c. administration of GalNAc–MASP-3–siRNA decreased the clinical disease activity score to 50% of controls, with decrease in histopathology scores and MASP-3 deposition. To confirm the ability to perform MASP-3 gene silencing in human cells, we generated a lentivirus expressing a short hairpin RNA specific for human MASP-3 mRNA. This procedure not only eliminated the short-term (at day 15) expression of MASP-3 in HepG2 and T98G cell lines but also diminished the long-term (at day 60) synthesis of MASP-3 protein in T98G cells. Our study demonstrates that isoform-specific silencing of MASP-3 in vivo modifies disease activity in a mouse model of RA and suggests that liver-directed MASP3 silencing may be a therapeutic approach in human RA.
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- Nirmal K Banda
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc., Boston, MA 02142
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Immunology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
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- Department of Immunology, Fukushima Medical University, Fukushima 960-1295, Japan
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- Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Diabetes, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Laboratory of Molecular Medicine, Department of Clinical Immunology, Section 7631, University Hospital of Copenhagen, 2200 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, University of Aarhus, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045
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Medjeral-Thomas NR, Troldborg A, Constantinou N, Lomax-Browne HJ, Hansen AG, Willicombe M, Pusey CD, Cook HT, Thiel S, Pickering MC. Progressive IgA Nephropathy Is Associated With Low Circulating Mannan-Binding Lectin-Associated Serine Protease-3 (MASP-3) and Increased Glomerular Factor H-Related Protein-5 (FHR5) Deposition. Kidney Int Rep 2017; 3:426-438. [PMID: 29725647 PMCID: PMC5932138 DOI: 10.1016/j.ekir.2017.11.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2017] [Revised: 11/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/21/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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Introduction IgA nephropathy (IgAN) is characterized by glomerular deposition of galactose-deficient IgA1 and complement proteins and leads to renal impairment. Complement deposition through the alternative and lectin activation pathways is associated with renal injury. Methods To elucidate the contribution of the lectin pathway to IgAN, we measured the 11 plasma lectin pathway components in a well-characterized cohort of patients with IgAN. Results M-ficolin, L-ficolin, mannan-binding lectin (MBL)-associated serine protease (MASP)-1 and MBL-associated protein (MAp) 19 were increased, whereas plasma MASP-3 levels were decreased in patients with IgAN compared with healthy controls. Progressive disease was associated with low plasma MASP-3 levels and increased glomerular staining for C3b/iC3b/C3c, C3d, C4d, C5b-9, and factor H-related protein 5 (FHR5). Glomerular FHR5 deposition positively correlated with glomerular C3b/iC3b/C3c, C3d, and C5b-9 deposition, but not with glomerular C4d. These observations, together with the finding that glomerular factor H (fH) deposition was reduced in progressive disease, are consistent with a role for fH deregulation by FHR5 in renal injury in IgAN. Conclusion Our data indicate that circulating MASP-3 levels could be used as a biomarker of disease severity in IgAN and that glomerular staining for FHR5 could both indicate alternative complement pathway activation and be a tissue marker of disease severity.
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.,Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Renal and Transplant Centre, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK
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- Renal and Vascular Inflammation Section, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Centre for Complement and Inflammation Research, Imperial College London, London, UK
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Banda NK, Desai D, Casterano A, Scheinman RI, Acharya S, Sekine H, Fujita T, Hansen AG, Thiel S, Borodovsky A, Holers VM. siRNA-mediated targeting of hepatocyte mannan-binding lectin-associated serine protease-3 for the treatment of murine collagen-antibody-inducsed arthritis (CAIA), a model for human rheumatoid arthritis. Mol Immunol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2017.06.129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Pihl R, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Thiel S. Analysis of Factor D isoforms in 3MC patients highlights the role of MASP-3 as a maturase in the alternative pathway of complement. Mol Immunol 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2017.06.092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Pihl R, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Thøgersen IB, Andres S, Dagnæs-Hansen F, Oexle K, Enghild JJ, Thiel S. Analysis of Factor D Isoforms in Malpuech-Michels-Mingarelli-Carnevale Patients Highlights the Role of MASP-3 as a Maturase in the Alternative Pathway of Complement. J Immunol 2017; 199:ji1700518. [PMID: 28794230 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1700518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 07/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Factor D (FD), which is also known as adipsin, is regarded as the first-acting protease of the alternative pathway (AP) of complement. It has been suggested that FD is secreted as a mature enzyme that does not require subsequent activation. This view was challenged when it was shown that mice lacking mannose-binding lectin (MBL)-associated serine protease-1 (MASP-1) and MASP-3 contain zymogenic FD (pro-FD), and it is becoming evident that MASP-3 is implicated in pro-FD maturation. However, the necessity of MASP-3 for pro-FD cleavage has been questioned, because AP activity is still observed in sera from MASP-1/3-deficient Malpuech-Michels-Mingarelli-Carnevale (3MC) patients. The identification of a novel 3MC patient carrying a previously unidentified MASP-3 G665S mutation prompted us to develop an analytical isoelectric focusing technique that resolves endogenous FD variants in complex samples. This enabled us to show that although 3MC patients predominantly contain pro-FD, they also contain detectable levels of mature FD. Moreover, using isoelectric focusing analysis, we show that both pro-FD and FD are present in the circulation of healthy donors. We characterized the naturally occurring 3MC-associated MASP-3 mutants and found that they all yielded enzymatically inactive proteins. Using MASP-3-depleted human serum, serum from 3MC patients, and Masp1/3-/- mice, we found that lack of enzymatically active MASP-3, or complete MASP-3 deficiency, compromises the conversion of pro-FD to FD. In summary, our observations emphasize that MASP-3 acts as an important maturase in the AP of complement, while also highlighting that there exists MASP-3-independent pro-FD maturation in 3MC patients.
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- Rasmus Pihl
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark;
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Human Genetics, Technical University Munich, D-81675 München, Germany; and
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- Institute of Neurogenomics, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark
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Mortensen SA, Skov LL, Kjaer-Sorensen K, Hansen AG, Hansen S, Dagnæs-Hansen F, Jensenius JC, Oxvig C, Thiel S, Degn SE. Endogenous Natural Complement Inhibitor Regulates Cardiac Development. J Immunol 2017; 198:3118-3126. [PMID: 28258200 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1601958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Congenital heart defects are a major cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity, affecting >1% of all live births in the Western world, yet a large fraction of such defects have an unknown etiology. Recent studies demonstrated surprising dual roles for immune-related molecules and their effector mechanisms during fetal development and adult homeostasis. In this article, we describe the function of an endogenous complement inhibitor, mannan-binding lectin (MBL)-associated protein (MAp)44, in regulating the composition of a serine protease-pattern recognition receptor complex, MBL-associated serine protease (MASP)-3/collectin-L1/K1 hetero-oligomer, which impacts cardiac neural crest cell migration. We used knockdown and rescue strategies in zebrafish, a model allowing visualization and assessment of heart function, even in the presence of severe functional defects. Knockdown of embryonic expression of MAp44 caused impaired cardiogenesis, lowered heart rate, and decreased cardiac output. These defects were associated with aberrant neural crest cell behavior. We found that MAp44 competed with MASP-3 for pattern recognition molecule interaction, and knockdown of endogenous MAp44 expression could be rescued by overexpression of wild-type MAp44. Our observations provide evidence that immune molecules are centrally involved in the orchestration of cardiac tissue development.
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- Simon A Mortensen
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Cancer and Inflammation Research, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5000 Odense, Denmark; and
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; .,Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115
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Hansen AG, Ramakrishnan N, Sunil Kumar PB, Ipsen JH. Numerical insights into the phase diagram of p-atic membranes with spherical topology. Eur Phys J E Soft Matter 2017; 40:32. [PMID: 28324242 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11515-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2016] [Accepted: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The properties of self-avoiding p-atic membranes restricted to spherical topology have been studied by Monte Carlo simulations of a triangulated random surface model. Spherically shaped p-atic membranes undergo a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition as expected with topology induced mutually repelling disclinations of the p-atic ordered phase. For flexible membranes the phase behaviour bears some resemblance to the spherically shaped case with a p-atic disordered crumpled phase and p-atic ordered, conformationally ordered (crinkled) phase separated by a KT-like transition with proliferation of disclinations. We confirm the proposed buckling of disclinations in the p-atic ordered phase, while the expected associated disordering (crumpling) transition at low bending rigidities is absent in the phase diagram.
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- A G Hansen
- MEMPHYS, Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense M, Denmark
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 600036, Chennai, India
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- MEMPHYS, Department of Physics, Chemistry, and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, 5230, Odense M, Denmark.
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Pezeshkian W, Hansen AG, Johannes L, Khandelia H, Shillcock JC, Kumar PBS, Ipsen JH. Membrane invagination induced by Shiga toxin B-subunit: from molecular structure to tube formation. Soft Matter 2016; 12:5164-5171. [PMID: 27070906 DOI: 10.1039/c6sm00464d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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The bacterial Shiga toxin is composed of an enzymatically active A-subunit, and a receptor-binding homopentameric B-subunit (STxB) that mediates intracellular toxin trafficking. Upon STxB-mediated binding to the glycolipid globotriaosylceramide (Gb3) at the plasma membrane of target cells, Shiga toxin is internalized by clathrin-dependent and independent endocytosis. The formation of tubular membrane invaginations is an essential step in the clathrin-independent STxB uptake process. However, the mechanism by which STxB induces these invaginations has remained unclear. Using a combination of all-atom molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations we show that the molecular architecture of STxB enables the following sequence of events: the Gb3 binding sites on STxB are arranged such that tight avidity-based binding results in a small increment of local curvature. Membrane-mediated clustering of several toxin molecules then creates a tubular membrane invagination that drives toxin entry into the cell. This mechanism requires: (1) a precise molecular architecture of the STxB binding sites; (2) a fluid bilayer in order for the tubular invagination to form. Although, STxB binding to the membrane requires specific interactions with Gb3 lipids, our study points to a generic molecular design principle for clathrin-independent endocytosis of nanoparticles.
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- W Pezeshkian
- Center for Biomembrane Physics (MEMPHYS), Department of Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy (FKF), University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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Degn SE, Kjaer TR, Kidmose RT, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Tekin M, Jensenius JC, Andersen GR, Thiel S. Complement activation by ligand-driven juxtaposition of discrete pattern recognition complexes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:13445-50. [PMID: 25197071 PMCID: PMC4169954 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1406849111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Defining mechanisms governing translation of molecular binding events into immune activation is central to understanding immune function. In the lectin pathway of complement, the pattern recognition molecules (PRMs) mannan-binding lectin (MBL) and ficolins complexed with the MBL-associated serine proteases (MASP)-1 and MASP-2 cleave C4 and C2 to generate C3 convertase. MASP-1 was recently found to be the exclusive activator of MASP-2 under physiological conditions, yet the predominant oligomeric forms of MBL carry only a single MASP homodimer. This prompted us to investigate whether activation of MASP-2 by MASP-1 occurs through PRM-driven juxtaposition on ligand surfaces. We demonstrate that intercomplex activation occurs between discrete PRM/MASP complexes. PRM ligand binding does not directly escort the transition of MASP from zymogen to active enzyme in the PRM/MASP complex; rather, clustering of PRM/MASP complexes directly causes activation. Our results support a clustering-based mechanism of activation, fundamentally different from the conformational model suggested for the classical pathway of complement.
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- Søren E Degn
- Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark;
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- Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Science and Technology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; and
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- Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Dr. John T. Macdonald Department of Human Genetics, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33136
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- Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Science and Technology, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; and
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- Department of Biomedicine, Health, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Kjaer TR, Hansen AG, Sørensen UBS, Holm AT, Sørensen GL, Jensenius JC, Thiel S. M-ficolin binds selectively to the capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 19B and 19C and of a Streptococcus mitis strain. Infect Immun 2013; 81:452-9. [PMID: 23184524 PMCID: PMC3553806 DOI: 10.1128/iai.01148-12] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/19/2012] [Accepted: 11/21/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The three human ficolins (H-, L-, and M-ficolins) and mannan-binding lectin are pattern recognition molecules of the innate immune system mediating activation of the lectin pathway of the complement system. These four human proteins bind to some microorganisms and may be involved in the resolution of infections. We investigated binding selectivity by examining the binding of M-ficolin to a panel of more than 100 different streptococcal strains (Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus mitis), each expressing distinct polysaccharide structures. M-ficolin binding was observed for three strains only: strains of the pneumococcal serotypes 19B and 19C and a single S. mitis strain expressing a similar polysaccharide structure. The bound M-ficolin, in association with MASP-2, mediated the cleavage of complement factor C4. Binding to the bacteria was inhibitable by N-acetylglucosamine, indicating that the interaction with the bacterial surface takes place via the fibrinogen-like domain. The common N-acetylmannosamine residue present in the structures of the four capsular polysaccharides of group 19 is linked via a phosphodiester bond. This residue is apparently not a ligand for M-ficolin, since the lectin binds to two of the group 19 polysaccharides only. M-ficolin bound strongly to serotype 19B and 19C polysaccharides. In contrast to those of serotypes 19A and 19F, serotype 19B and 19C polysaccharides contain an extra N-acetylmannosamine residue linked via glycoside linkage only. Thus, this extra residue seems to be the M-ficolin ligand. In conclusion, we were able to demonstrate specific binding of M-ficolin to some capsular polysaccharides of the opportunistic pathogen S. pneumoniae and of the commensal bacterium S. mitis.
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- Troels R. Kjaer
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Institute of Molecular Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular and Renal Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Degn SE, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Duman D, Tekin M, Jensenius JC, Thiel S. MASP-1 is crucial for lectin pathway activation in human serum, while neither MASP-1 nor MASP-3 are required for alternative pathway function. Immunobiology 2012. [DOI: 10.1016/j.imbio.2012.08.256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Degn SE, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Duman D, Tekin M, Jensenius JC, Thiel S. Mannan-binding lectin-associated serine protease (MASP)-1 is crucial for lectin pathway activation in human serum, whereas neither MASP-1 nor MASP-3 is required for alternative pathway function. J Immunol 2012; 189:3957-69. [PMID: 22966085 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1201736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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The lectin pathway of complement is an important component of innate immunity. Its activation has been thought to occur via recognition of pathogens by mannan-binding lectin (MBL) or ficolins in complex with MBL-associated serine protease (MASP)-2, followed by MASP-2 autoactivation and cleavage of C4 and C2 generating the C3 convertase. MASP-1 and MASP-3 are related proteases found in similar complexes. MASP-1 has been shown to aid MASP-2 convertase generation by auxiliary C2 cleavage. In mice, MASP-1 and MASP-3 have been reported to be central also to alternative pathway function through activation of profactor D and factor B. In this study, we present functional studies based on a patient harboring a nonsense mutation in the common part of the MASP1 gene and hence deficient in both MASP-1 and MASP-3. Surprisingly, we find that the alternative pathway in this patient functions normally, and is unaffected by reconstitution with MASP-1 and MASP-3. Conversely, we find that the patient has a nonfunctional lectin pathway, which can be restored by MASP-1, implying that this component is crucial for complement activation. We show that, although MASP-2 is able to autoactivate under artificial conditions, MASP-1 dramatically increases lectin pathway activity at physiological conditions through direct activation of MASP-2. We further demonstrate that MASP-1 and MASP-2 can associate in the same MBL complex, and that such cocomplexes are found in serum, providing a scenario for transactivation of MASP-2. Hence, in functional terms, it appears that MASP-1 and MASP-2 act in a manner analogous to that of C1r and C1s of the classical pathway.
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- Søren E Degn
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Degn SE, Thiel S, Nielsen O, Hansen AG, Steffensen R, Jensenius JC. MAp19, the alternative splice product of the MASP2 gene. J Immunol Methods 2011; 373:89-101. [PMID: 21871896 PMCID: PMC7099877 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2011.08.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2011] [Revised: 07/19/2011] [Accepted: 08/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The lectin pathway of complement is a central part of innate immunity, but as a powerful inducer of inflammation it needs to be tightly controlled. The MASP2 gene encodes two proteins, MASP-2 and MAp19. MASP-2 is the serine protease responsible for lectin pathway activation. The smaller alternative splice product, MAp19, lacks a catalytic domain but retains two of three domains involved in association with the pattern-recognition molecules (PRMs): mannan-binding lectin (MBL), H-ficolin, L-ficolin and M-ficolin. MAp19 reportedly acts as a competitive inhibitor of MASP-2-mediated complement activation. In light of a ten times lower affinity of MAp19, versus MASP-2, for association with the PRMs, much higher serum concentrations of MAp19 than MASP-2 would be required for MAp19 to exert such an inhibitory activity. Just four amino acid residues distinguish MAp19 from MASP-2, and these are conserved between man, mouse and rat. Nonetheless we generated monoclonal rat anti-MAp19 antibodies and established a quantitative assay. We found the concentration of MAp19 in serum to be 217 ng/ml, i.e., 11nM, comparable to the 7 nM of MASP-2. In serum all MASP-2, but only a minor fraction of MAp19, was associated with PRMs. In contrast to previous reports we found that MAp19 could not compete with MASP-2 for binding to MBL, nor could it inhibit MASP-2-mediated complement activation. Immunohistochemical analyses combined with qRT-PCR revealed that both MAp19 and MASP-2 were mainly expressed in hepatocytes. High levels of MAp19 were found in urine, where MASP-2 was absent.
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Key Words
- mbl, mannan-binding lectin
- masp, mbl-associated serine protease
- map, mbl-associated protein
- pab, polyclonal antibody
- mbs, m-maleimidobenzoyl-n-hydroxysuccinimid
- dvs, divinylsulfone
- ppd, purified protein derivative
- hrp, horseradish peroxidase
- klh, keyhole limpet hemocyanin
- bcg, bacillus calmette-guérin
- c1-inh, c1 inhibitor
- o.n., overnight
- pmbl/masp, plasma-derived mbl/masp complexes
- pamp, pathogen-associated molecular pattern
- prm, pattern-recognition molecule
- higg, normal human igg
- nhs, normal human serum
- trifma, time-resolved immunofluorometric assay
- rt, room temperature
- complement
- lectin pathway
- mannan-binding lectin
- map19
- smap
- masp-2
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- Søren E Degn
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Wilhelm Meyers Allé 4, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Kjaer TR, Hansen AG, Sørensen UBS, Nielsen O, Thiel S, Jensenius JC. Investigations on the pattern recognition molecule M-ficolin: quantitative aspects of bacterial binding and leukocyte association. J Leukoc Biol 2011; 90:425-37. [PMID: 21730084 DOI: 10.1189/jlb.0411201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023] Open
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M-ficolin is a PRM of the innate immune system, found in serum and associated with leukocytes. We used the soluble form to study specificity toward Gram-positive bacteria and characterized and quantified cell-associated M-ficolin. The binding of M-ficolin to capsulated and noncapsulated strains of Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) and Staphylococcus aureus was investigated. We did not observe binding of M-ficolin to any of 13 serotypes of S. aureus. Dose-dependent binding of M-ficolin was demonstrated for all of the capsulated GBS strains. The binding was abolished by prior treatment of the bacteria with sialidase, indicating that sialic acid is the ligand for M-ficolin on these bacteria. GlcNAc could inhibit the binding, suggesting that M-ficolin binds via its FBG. M-ficolin was found associated with the complement-activating enzyme in serum, and M-ficolin bound to GBS mediated activation of the complement system. M-ficolin expression on leukocytes was evaluated by flow cytometry with anti-M-ficolin mAb. Total M-ficolin of different leukocytes was quantified in detergent extracts. Monocytes and granulocytes showed similar M-ficolin surface expression, 1.1 × 10(5) and 0.7 × 10(5) M-ficolin molecules/cell, respectively. The total M-ficolin content of the cells was 1.5 × 10(6) molecules/monocyte and approximately one-third of this for granulocytes. Lymphocytes contained <1.5% of the amount estimated for monocytes, and none was revealed on the surface of lymphocytes by flow cytometry. Immunohistochemical analysis of the distribution of M-ficolin in 25 tissues revealed staining of only granulocytes and monocytes. Reported M-ficolin expression by type II pneumocytes could not be verified. We demonstrate the specific binding of M-ficolin to sialic acids in the capsule of GBS and give quantitative aspects of the cell-associated M-ficolin.
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- Troels R Kjaer
- Aarhus University, Wilhelm Meyers Allé 4, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Degn SE, Hansen AG, Steffensen R, Jacobsen C, Jensenius JC, Thiel S. MAp44, a human protein associated with pattern recognition molecules of the complement system and regulating the lectin pathway of complement activation. J Immunol 2009; 183:7371-8. [PMID: 19917686 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0902388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2023]
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Essential effector functions of innate immunity are mediated by complement activation initiated by soluble pattern recognition molecules: mannan-binding lectin (MBL) and the ficolins. We present a novel, phylogenetically conserved protein, MAp44, which is found in human serum at 1.4 microg/ml in Ca(2+)-dependent complexes with the soluble pattern recognition molecules. The affinity for MBL is in the nanomolar range (K(D) = 0.6 nM) as determined by surface plasmon resonance. The first eight exons of the gene for MAp44 encode four domains shared with MBL-associated serine protease (MASP)-1 and MASP-3 (CUB1-EGF-CUB2-CCP1), and a ninth exon encodes C-terminal 17 aa unique to MAp44. mRNA profiling in human tissues shows high expression in the heart. MAp44 competes with MASP-2 for binding to MBL and ficolins, resulting in inhibition of complement activation. Our results add a novel mechanism to those known to control the innate immune system.
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- Søren E Degn
- Departments of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Arhus, Denmark
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Schlapbach LJ, Aebi C, Hansen AG, Hirt A, Jensenius JC, Ammann RA. H-ficolin serum concentration and susceptibility to fever and neutropenia in paediatric cancer patients. Clin Exp Immunol 2009; 157:83-9. [PMID: 19659773 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2009.03957.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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H-ficolin (Hakata antigen, ficolin-3) activates the lectin pathway of complement similar to mannose-binding lectin. However, its impact on susceptibility to infection is currently unknown. This study investigated whether the serum concentration of H-ficolin at diagnosis is associated with fever and neutropenia (FN) in paediatric cancer patients. H-ficolin was measured by time-resolved immunofluorometric assay in serum taken at cancer diagnosis from 94 children treated with chemotherapy. The association of FN episodes with H-ficolin serum concentration was analysed by multivariate Poisson regression. Median concentration of H-ficolin in serum was 26 mg/l (range 6-83). Seven (7%) children had low H-ficolin (< 14 mg/l). During a cumulative chemotherapy exposure time of 82 years, 177 FN episodes were recorded, 35 (20%) of them with bacteraemia. Children with low H-ficolin had a significantly increased risk to develop FN [relative risk (RR) 2.24; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.38-3.65; P = 0.004], resulting in prolonged duration of hospitalization and of intravenous anti-microbial therapy. Bacteraemia occurred more frequently in children with low H-ficolin (RR 2.82; CI 1.02-7.76; P = 0.045). In conclusion, low concentration of H-ficolin was associated with an increased risk of FN, particularly FN with bacteraemia, in children treated with chemotherapy for cancer. Low H-ficolin thus represents a novel risk factor for chemotherapy-related infections.
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- L J Schlapbach
- Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
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Schlapbach LJ, Kessler U, Thiel S, Hansen AG, Nelle M, Ammann RA, Aebi C, Jensenius JC. M-ficolin in the neonatal period: Associations with need for mechanical ventilation and mortality in premature infants with necrotising enterocolitis. Mol Immunol 2009; 46:2597-603. [PMID: 19539995 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2009.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2009] [Revised: 04/21/2009] [Accepted: 05/02/2009] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) causes significant mortality in premature infants. The involvement of the innate immune system in the pathogenesis of NEC remains unclear. M-, L- and H-ficolins recognize microorganisms and activate the complement system, but their role in host defense is largely unknown. This study investigated whether ficolin concentrations are associated with NEC. STUDY DESIGN Case-control study including 30 premature infants with NEC and 60 controls. M-, L- and H-ficolins were measured in cord blood using time-resolved immunofluorometric assays. Multivariate logistic regression was performed. RESULTS Of the 30 NEC cases (median gestational age, 29.5 weeks), 12 (40%) were operated and 4 (13%) died. No difference regarding ficolin concentration was found when comparing NEC cases versus controls (p>0.05). However, infants who died of NEC had significantly lower M-ficolin cord blood concentrations than NEC survivors (for M-ficolin <300ng/ml; multivariate OR 12.35, CI 1.03-148.59, p=0.048). In the entire study population, M-, L- and H-ficolins were positively correlated with gestational age (p<0.001) and birth weight (p<0.001). Infants with low M-ficolin required significantly more often mechanical ventilation after birth multivariate (OR 10.55, CI 2.01-55.34, p=0.005). CONCLUSIONS M-, L- and H-ficolins are already present in cord blood and increase with gestational age. Low cord blood concentration of M-ficolin was associated with higher NEC-associated fatality and with increased need for mechanical ventilation. Future studies need to assess whether M-ficolin is involved in multiorgan failure and pulmonary disease.
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MESH Headings
- Blotting, Western
- Case-Control Studies
- Cell Line
- Enterocolitis, Necrotizing/blood
- Enterocolitis, Necrotizing/mortality
- Enterocolitis, Necrotizing/therapy
- Fetal Blood/chemistry
- Humans
- Infant Mortality
- Infant, Newborn
- Infant, Premature/blood
- Lectins/analysis
- Lectins/blood
- Lectins/genetics
- Logistic Models
- Macrophages/cytology
- Macrophages/metabolism
- Macrophages, Alveolar/cytology
- Macrophages, Alveolar/metabolism
- Monocytes/cytology
- Monocytes/metabolism
- Multivariate Analysis
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- Respiration, Artificial
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Ficolins
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Laugesen LP, Hansen AG, Jensen H, Petersen A, Tønnesen KH. The prevalence of secondary hypertension in elderly hypertensive patients. Acta Med Scand Suppl 2009; 676:161-77. [PMID: 6362345 DOI: 10.1111/j.0954-6820.1983.tb19341.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Thiel S, Kolev M, Degn S, Steffensen R, Hansen AG, Ruseva M, Jensenius JC. Polymorphisms in mannan-binding lectin (MBL)-associated serine protease 2 affect stability, binding to MBL, and enzymatic activity. J Immunol 2009; 182:2939-47. [PMID: 19234189 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0802053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Mannan-binding lectin-associated serine protease 2 (MASP-2) is an enzyme of the innate immune system. MASP-2 forms complexes with the pattern recognition molecules mannan-binding lectin (MBL), H-ficolin, L-ficolin, or M-ficolin, and is activated when one of these proteins recognizes microorganisms and subsequently cleaves complement factors C4 and C2, thus initiating the activation of the complement system. Missense polymorphisms of MASP-2 exist in different ethnic populations. To further characterize the nature of these, we have produced and characterized rMASP-2s representing the following naturally occurring polymorphisms: R99Q, D120G, P126L, H155R, 156_159dupCHNH (CHNHdup), V377A, and R439H. Only very low levels of CHNHdup were secreted from the cells, whereas quantities similar to wild-type MASP-2 were found intracellularly, indicating that this mutation results in a misfolded protein. We found that D120G and CHNHdup could not associate with MBL, whereas R99Q, P126L, H155R, V377A, R439H, and wild-type MASP-2 bound equally well to MBL. Accordingly, when D120G and CHNHdup were mixed with MBL, no activation of complement factor C4 was observed, whereas R99Q, P126L, and V377A cleaved C4 with an activity comparable to wild-type MASP-2 and H155R slightly better. In contrast, the R439H variant was deficient in this process despite its normal binding to MBL. This variant was also not able to autoactivate in the presence of MBL and mannan. We find the R439H variant is common in Sub-Saharan Africans with a gene frequency of 10%. Our results indicate that individuals with different types of MASP-2 defects may be identified through genotyping.
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- Steffen Thiel
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark.
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Adare A, Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Bataineh H, Alexander J, Al-Jamel A, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Asai J, Atomssa ET, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun B, Babintsev V, Baksay G, Baksay L, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bennett R, Berdnikov Y, Bickley AA, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Boyle K, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Campbell S, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang BS, Chang WC, Charvet JL, Chernichenko S, Chiba J, Chi CY, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Chung P, Churyn A, Cianciolo V, Cleven CR, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, Dahms T, Das K, David G, Deák F, Deaton MB, Dehmelt K, Delagrange H, Denisov A, d'Enterria D, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Dion A, Donadelli M, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Dubey AK, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, Egdemir J, Ellinghaus F, Emam WS, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Eyser KO, Fields DE, Finck C, Finger M, Finger M, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Forestier B, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fujiwara K, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Fusayasu T, Gadrat S, Garishvili I, Gastineau F, Germain M, Glenn A, Gong H, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gunji T, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Hadj Henni A, Haegemann C, Haggerty JS, Hagiwara MN, Hamagaki H, Han R, Hansen AG, Harada H, Hartouni EP, Haruna K, Harvey M, Haslum E, Hasuko K, Hayano R, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Hester T, Heuser JM, He X, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Hohlmann M, Holmes M, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Hornback D, Hur MG, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Inoue Y, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Isobe T, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jin J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kamin J, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Kanou H, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kawagishi T, Kawall D, Kazantsev AV, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kim YS, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klay J, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Král A, Kravitz A, Kroon PJ, Kubart J, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurihara N, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lai YS, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Le Bornec Y, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee MK, Lee T, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Lenzi B, Lim H, Liska T, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Li X, Li XH, Love B, Lynch D, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Malik MD, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masek L, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McCumber M, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Mikes P, Miki K, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mishra M, Mitchell JT, Mitrovski M, Mohanty AK, Morreale A, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Moukhanova TV, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagata Y, Nagle JL, Naglis M, Nakagawa I, Nakamiya Y, Nakamura T, Nakano K, Newby J, Nguyen M, Norman BE, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Oda SX, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oka M, Omiwade OO, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Ouchida M, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pak R, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Peressounko DY, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls JM, Qu H, Rak J, Rakotozafindrabe A, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Rembeczki S, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rukoyatkin P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Sahlmueller B, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Sakata H, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Seele J, Seidl R, Semenov V, Seto R, Sharma D, Shea TK, Shein I, Shevel A, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Shohjoh T, Shoji K, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Silvestre C, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Skutnik S, Slunecka M, Smith WC, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Suire C, Sullivan JP, Sziklai J, Tabaru T, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Toia A, Tojo J, Tomásek L, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, Vale C, Valle H, vanHecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Vertesi R, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Virius M, Volkov MA, Vrba V, Vznuzdaev E, Wagner M, Walker D, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, Wessels J, White SN, Willis N, Winter D, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Wysocki M, Xie W, Yamaguchi YL, Yanovich A, Yasin Z, Ying J, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Younus I, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zaudtke O, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X. System size and energy dependence of jet-induced hadron pair correlation shapes in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at square root sNN=200 and 62.4 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 98:232302. [PMID: 17677902 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.232302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2006] [Indexed: 05/16/2023]
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We present azimuthal angle correlations of intermediate transverse momentum (1-4 GeV/c) hadrons from dijets in Cu+Cu and Au+Au collisions at square root sNN=62.4 and 200 GeV. The away-side dijet induced azimuthal correlation is broadened, non-Gaussian, and peaked away from Delta phi=pi in central and semicentral collisions in all the systems. The broadening and peak location are found to depend upon the number of participants in the collision, but not on the collision energy or beam nuclei. These results are consistent with sound or shock wave models, but pose challenges to Cherenkov gluon radiation models.
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- A Adare
- University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Chung P, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, Chenawi KE, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nagy M, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Evidence for a long-range component in the pion emission source in Au+Au collisions at sqrt sNN=200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 98:132301. [PMID: 17501193 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.132301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2006] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Emission source functions are extracted from correlation functions constructed from charged pions produced at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. The source parameters extracted from these functions at low k(T) give first indications of a long tail for the pion emission source. The source extension cannot be explained solely by simple kinematic considerations. The possible role of a halo of secondary pions from resonance emissions is explored.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, d'Enterria D, Das K, David G, Deák F, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Fields DE, Finck C, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Germain M, Glenn A, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hasuko K, Hayano R, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kazantsev AV, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Newby J, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls JM, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Willis N, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zaudtke O, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X, Van Hecke HW. Measurement of direct photon production in p+p collisions at sqrt[s] = 200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2007; 98:012002. [PMID: 17358469 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.98.012002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2006] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Cross sections for midrapidity production of direct photons in p+p collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) are reported for transverse momenta of 3 < pT < 16 GeV/c. Next-to-leading order perturbative QCD (pQCD) describes the data well for pT >5 GeV/c, where the uncertainties of the measurement and theory are comparable. We also report on the effect of requiring the photons to be isolated from parton jet energy. The observed fraction of isolated photons is well described by pQCD for pT >7 GeV/c.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Dense-medium modifications to jet-induced hadron pair distributions in Au+Au collisions at sqrt s NN=200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 97:052301. [PMID: 17026095 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.97.052301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2005] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Azimuthal correlations of jet-induced high-p(T) charged hadron pairs are studied at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. The distribution of jet-associated partner hadrons (1.0<p(T)<2.5 GeV/c) per trigger hadron (2.5<p(T)<4.0 GeV/c) is found to vary with collision centrality, in both shape and yield, indicating a significant effect of the nuclear collision medium on the jet fragmentation process.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Frederiksen PD, Thiel S, Jensen L, Hansen AG, Matthiesen F, Jensenius JC. Quantification of mannan-binding lectin. J Immunol Methods 2006; 315:49-60. [PMID: 16979181 DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2006.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2006] [Revised: 06/29/2006] [Accepted: 07/09/2006] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Mannan-binding lectin (MBL) is attracting considerable interest due to its role in the immune defense. The high frequency of congenital MBL deficiency makes it feasible to evaluate clinical relevance through epidemiological investigations on fairly limited numbers of patients. MBL deficiency is determined by three mutant allotypes termed B, C and D in the coding region as well as mutations in the promoter region. It has been suggested that individuals, with deficiency-associated allotypes, may present significant amounts of low molecular weight MBL. We have compared the quantification of MBL by four commercially available assays with results obtained by our own in-house assays. Most assays are selectively sensitive for the wild type MBL (allotype A), but special combinations of antibodies also detect mutant forms of MBL. Thus a sandwich-type time-resolved immunoflourometric assay (TRIFMA), with a mouse monoclonal antibody (93C) as the catching and detecting antibody, shows B/B and D/D homozygous individuals to present signals corresponding to up to 500 ng MBL per ml (with plasma from an A/A individual as standard) as compared to less than 50 ng/ml and 200 ng/ml, respectively, when measured in other assays. In GPC at isotonic conditions the MBL in B/B and D/D individuals showed a Mr of 450 kDa. This MBL cannot bind to mannan. We further present a new method for quantifying the amount of MBL polypeptide chain. By applying plasma samples on SDS-PAGE at reducing conditions followed by Western blotting and quantification by chemiluminescense, this approach presents single polypeptide chains to the antibody independent of allotype differences in the collagen-like region. Titrations of recombinant MBL served as standard. In sera from homozygous mutants (O/O) the MBL concentrations estimated on Western blot were in the range of 100 to 500 ng/ml and correlated with that measured in the 93C-based TRIFMA.
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- Pernille D Frederiksen
- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus, Wilhelm Meyers Allé, 8000 Aarhus, DK, Denmark.
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, d'Enterria D, Das K, David G, Deák F, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Fields DE, Finck C, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Germain M, Glenn A, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hasuko K, Hayano R, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kazantsev AV, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Newby J, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls JM, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Willis N, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X. Azimuthal angle correlations for rapidity separated Hadron pairs in d+Au collisions at square root of sNN=200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:222301. [PMID: 16803304 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.222301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/17/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Deuteron-gold (d+Au) collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider provide ideal platforms for testing QCD theories in dense nuclear matter at high energy. In particular, models suggesting strong saturation effects for partons carrying small nucleon momentum fraction (x) predict modifications to jet production at forward rapidity (deuteron-going direction) in d+Au collisions. We report on two-particle azimuthal angle correlations between charged hadrons at forward/backward (deuteron/gold going direction) rapidity and charged hadrons at midrapidity in d+Au and p+p collisions at square root of sNN=200 GeV. Jet structures observed in the correlations are quantified in terms of the conditional yield and angular width of away-side partners. The kinematic region studied here samples partons in the gold nucleus with x~0.1 to ~0.01. Within this range, we find no x dependence of the jet structure in d+Au collisions.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, Chenawi KE, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, de Cassagnac RG, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Sahlmueller B, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Common suppression pattern of eta and pi0 mesons at high transverse momentum in Au + Au collisions at square root S(NN) = 200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:202301. [PMID: 16803168 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.202301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2006] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Inclusive transverse momentum spectra of eta mesons have been measured within p(T) = 2-10 GeV/c at midrapidity by the PHENIX experiment in Au + Au collisions at square root S(NN) = 200 GeV. In central Au+Au the eta yields are significantly suppressed compared to peripheral Au + Au, d + Au, and p + p yields scaled by the corresponding number of nucleon-nucleon collisions. The magnitude, centrality, and p(T) dependence of the suppression is common, within errors, for eta and pi0. The ratio of eta to pi0 spectra at high p(T) amounts to 0.40 < R(eta/pi)0 < 0.48 for the three systems, in agreement with the world average measured in hadronic and nuclear reactions and, at large scaled momentum, in e+e- collisions.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, de Cassagnac RG, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Single electrons from heavy-flavor decays in collisions at. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:032001. [PMID: 16486684 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.032001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The invariant differential cross section for inclusive electron production in p+p collisions at [FORMULA: SEE TEXT] has been measured by the PHENIX experiment at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider over the transverse momentum range 0.4<or=pT<OR=5.0 GeV/c in the central rapidity region ([FORMULA: SEE TEXT]). The contribution to the inclusive electron spectrum from semileptonic decays of hadrons carrying heavy flavor, i.e., charm quarks or, at high , bottom quarks, is determined via three independent methods. The resulting electron spectrum from heavy-flavor decays is compared to recent leading and next-to-leading order perturbative QCD calculations. The total cross section of charm quark-antiquark pair production is determined to be [FORMULA: SEE TEXT].
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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The azimuthal distribution of identified pi0 and inclusive photons has been measured in [FORMULA: SEE TEXT] Au+Au collisions with the PHENIX experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). The second-harmonic parameter (nu2) was measured to describe the observed anisotropy of the azimuthal distribution. The measured inclusive photon is consistent with the value expected for the photons from hadron decay and is also consistent with the lack of direct photon signal over the measured pT range 1-6 GeV/c. An attempt is made to extract nu2 of direct photons.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, Egdemir J, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Nuclear modification of electron spectra and implications for heavy quark energy loss in Au+Au collisions at [FORMULA: SEE TEXT]. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:032301. [PMID: 16486687 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.032301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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The PHENIX experiment has measured midrapidity ([FORMULA: SEE TEXT]) transverse momentum spectra ([FORMULA: SEE TEXT]) of electrons as a function of centrality in Au+Au collisions at [FORMULA: SEE TEXT]. Contributions from photon conversions and from light hadron decays, mainly Dalitz decays of pi0 and eta mesons, were removed. The resulting nonphotonic electron spectra are primarily due to the semileptonic decays of hadrons carrying heavy quarks. Nuclear modification factors were determined by comparison to nonphotonic electrons in p+p collisions. A significant suppression of electrons at high pT is observed in central Au+Au collisions, indicating substantial energy loss of heavy quarks.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Atomssa ET, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, Cussonneau JP, d'Enterria D, Das K, David G, Deák F, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Fields DE, Finck C, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Germain M, Glenn A, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hasuko K, Hayano R, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hidas P, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Inuzuka M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Katou K, Kawabata T, Kazantsev AV, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DJ, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kinney E, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Kohara R, Komkov B, Konno M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurita K, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Miake Y, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Newby J, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Pate SF, Pei H, Penev V, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Pierson A, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qualls JM, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shimomura M, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Uam TJ, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Willis N, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zimányi J, Zolin L, Zong X. J/psi production and nuclear effects for d + Au and p + p collisions at square root of S(NN) = 200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2006; 96:012304. [PMID: 16486446 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.96.012304] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2005] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
J/psi production in d + Au and p + p collisions at square root of S(NN) = 200 GeV has been measured by the PHENIX experiment at rapidities -2.2 < y < +2.4. The cross sections and nuclear dependence of J/psi production versus rapidity, transverse momentum, and centrality are obtained and compared to lower energy p + A results and to theoretical models. The observed nuclear dependence in d + Au collisions is found to be modest, suggesting that the absorption in the final state is weak and the shadowing of the gluon distributions is small and consistent with Dokshitzer-Gribov-Lipatov-Altarelli-Parisi-based parametrizations that fit deep-inelastic scattering and Drell-Yan data at lower energies.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, Drees KA, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Measurement of transverse single-spin asymmetries for midrapidity production of neutral pions and charged hadrons in polarized p + p collisions at square root(s) = 200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2005; 95:202001. [PMID: 16384048 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.95.202001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2005] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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Transverse single-spin asymmetries to probe the transverse-spin structure of the proton have been measured for neutral pions and nonidentified charged hadrons from polarized proton-proton collisions at midrapidity and square root(s) = 200 GeV. The data cover a transverse momentum (pT) range 1.0-5.0 GeV/c for neutral pions and 0.5-5.0 GeV/c for charged hadrons, at a Feynman-x value of approximately zero. The asymmetries seen in this previously unexplored kinematic region are consistent with zero within errors of a few percent. In addition, the inclusive charged hadron cross section at midrapidity from 0.5 < pT < 7.0 GeV/c is presented and compared to next-to-leading order perturbative QCD (pQCD) calculations. Successful description of the unpolarized cross section above approximately 2 GeV/c suggests that pQCD is applicable in the interpretation of the asymmetry results in the relevant kinematic range.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Al-Jamel A, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aoki K, Aphecetche L, Armendariz R, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun B, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bauer F, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Bennett R, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Bjorndal MT, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Boyle K, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Campbell S, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cleven CR, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Comets MP, Constantin P, Csanád M, Csörgo T, d'Enterria D, Dahms T, Das K, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Dion A, Drachenberg JL, Drapier O, Drees A, Drees KA, Dubey AK, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Dzhordzhadze V, Efremenko YV, Egdemir J, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Espagnon B, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Forestier B, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fukao Y, Fung SY, Gadrat S, Garpman S, Gastineau F, Germain M, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Perdekamp MG, Gunji T, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Henni AH, Haggerty JS, Hagiwara MN, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Harada H, Hartouni EP, Haruna K, Harvey M, Haslum E, Hasuko K, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hiejima H, Hill JC, Hobbs R, Holmes M, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Horaguchi T, Hur HM, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Inaba M, Isenhower D, Isenhower L, Ishihara M, Isobe T, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jin J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kajihara F, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kaneta M, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kawagishi T, Kazantsev AV, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kim YS, Kinney E, Kinnison WW, Kiss A, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Komkov B, Konno M, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kunde GJ, Kurihara N, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Le Bornec Y, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee MK, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Leite MAL, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Malik MD, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McCain MC, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Moukhanova TV, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagata Y, Nagle JL, Naglis M, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nguyen M, Nilsson P, Norman B, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada H, Okada K, Omiwade OO, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Park WJ, Parmar A, Pate SF, Pei H, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Pereira H, Peresedov V, Peressounko DY, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Qu H, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosendahl SSE, Rosnet P, Rukoyatkin P, Rykov VL, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Sahlmueller B, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Sharma D, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shein I, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Shimomura M, Shohjoh T, Shoji K, Sickles A, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Simon-Gillo J, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Skutnik S, Smith WC, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Suire C, Sullivan JP, Sziklai J, Tabaru T, Takagi S, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Taranenko A, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Togawa M, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tram VN, Tserruya I, Tsuchimoto Y, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, Valle H, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Vertesi R, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wagner M, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, Wessels J, White SN, Willis N, Winter D, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Wysocki M, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Younus I, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zaudkte O, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zimányi J, Zolin L. Saturation of azimuthal anisotropy in Au + Au collisions at (square root)s(NN) = 62-200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2005; 94:232302. [PMID: 16090463 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.232302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2004] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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New measurements are presented for charged hadron azimuthal correlations at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at (square root)s(NN) = 62.4 and 200 GeV. They are compared to earlier measurements obtained at (square root)s(NN) = 130 GeV and in Pb + Pb collisions at (square root)s(NN) = 17.2 GeV. Sizeable anisotropies are observed with centrality and transverse momentum (pT) dependence characteristic of elliptic flow (upsilon2). For a broad range of centralities, the observed magnitudes and trends of the differential anisotropy, upsilon2(pT), change very little over the collision energy range (square root)s(NN) = 62-200 GeV, indicating saturation of the excitation function for upsilon2 at these energies. Such a saturation may be indicative of the dominance of a very soft equation of state for (square root)s(NN) approximately 60-200 GeV.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Abstract
The first measurement of direct photons in Au + Au collisions at (square root)S(NN) = 200 GeV is presented. The direct photon signal is extracted as a function of the Au + Au collision centrality and compared to next-to-leading order perturbative quantum chromodynamics calculations. The direct photon yield is shown to scale with the number of nucleon-nucleon collisions for all centralities.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria D, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev V, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Deuteron and antideuteron production in Au+Au collisions at square root of s(NN)=200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2005; 94:122302. [PMID: 15903909 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.122302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2004] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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The production of deuterons and antideuterons in the transverse momentum range 1.1<p(T)<4.3 GeV/c at midrapidity in Au+Au collisions at square root of s(NN)=200 GeV has been studied by the PHENIX experiment at RHIC. A coalescence analysis, comparing the deuteron and antideuteron spectra with that of proton and antiproton, has been performed. The coalescence probability is equal for both deuterons and antideuterons and it increases as a function of p(T), which is consistent with an expanding collision zone. Comparing (anti)proton yields, p /p=0.73+/-0.01, with (anti)deuteron yields, d /d=0.47+/-0.03, we estimate that n /n=0.64+/-0.04. The nucleon phase space density is estimated from the coalescence measurement.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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Adler SS, Afanasiev S, Aidala C, Ajitanand NN, Akiba Y, Alexander J, Amirikas R, Aphecetche L, Aronson SH, Averbeck R, Awes TC, Azmoun R, Babintsev V, Baldisseri A, Barish KN, Barnes PD, Bassalleck B, Bathe S, Batsouli S, Baublis V, Bazilevsky A, Belikov S, Berdnikov Y, Bhagavatula S, Boissevain JG, Borel H, Borenstein S, Brooks ML, Brown DS, Bruner N, Bucher D, Buesching H, Bumazhnov V, Bunce G, Burward-Hoy JM, Butsyk S, Camard X, Chai JS, Chand P, Chang WC, Chernichenko S, Chi CY, Chiba J, Chiu M, Choi IJ, Choi J, Choudhury RK, Chujo T, Cianciolo V, Cobigo Y, Cole BA, Constantin P, d'Enterria DG, David G, Delagrange H, Denisov A, Deshpande A, Desmond EJ, Devismes A, Dietzsch O, Drapier O, Drees A, du Rietz R, Durum A, Dutta D, Efremenko YV, El Chenawi K, Enokizono A, En'yo H, Esumi S, Ewell L, Fields DE, Fleuret F, Fokin SL, Fox BD, Fraenkel Z, Frantz JE, Franz A, Frawley AD, Fung SY, Garpman S, Ghosh TK, Glenn A, Gogiberidze G, Gonin M, Gosset J, Goto Y, Granier de Cassagnac R, Grau N, Greene SV, Grosse Perdekamp M, Guryn W, Gustafsson HA, Hachiya T, Haggerty JS, Hamagaki H, Hansen AG, Hartouni EP, Harvey M, Hayano R, Hayashi N, He X, Heffner M, Hemmick TK, Heuser JM, Hibino M, Hill JC, Holzmann W, Homma K, Hong B, Hoover A, Ichihara T, Ikonnikov VV, Imai K, Isenhower D, Ishihara M, Issah M, Isupov A, Jacak BV, Jang WY, Jeong Y, Jia J, Jinnouchi O, Johnson BM, Johnson SC, Joo KS, Jouan D, Kametani S, Kamihara N, Kang JH, Kapoor SS, Katou K, Kelly S, Khachaturov B, Khanzadeev A, Kikuchi J, Kim DH, Kim DJ, Kim DW, Kim E, Kim GB, Kim HJ, Kistenev E, Kiyomichi A, Kiyoyama K, Klein-Boesing C, Kobayashi H, Kochenda L, Kochetkov V, Koehler D, Kohama T, Kopytine M, Kotchetkov D, Kozlov A, Kroon PJ, Kuberg CH, Kurita K, Kuroki Y, Kweon MJ, Kwon Y, Kyle GS, Lacey R, Ladygin V, Lajoie JG, Lebedev A, Leckey S, Lee DM, Lee S, Leitch MJ, Li XH, Lim H, Litvinenko A, Liu MX, Liu Y, Maguire CF, Makdisi YI, Malakhov A, Manko VI, Mao Y, Martinez G, Marx MD, Masui H, Matathias F, Matsumoto T, McGaughey PL, Melnikov E, Messer F, Miake Y, Milan J, Miller TE, Milov A, Mioduszewski S, Mischke RE, Mishra GC, Mitchell JT, Mohanty AK, Morrison DP, Moss JM, Mühlbacher F, Mukhopadhyay D, Muniruzzaman M, Murata J, Nagamiya S, Nagle JL, Nakamura T, Nandi BK, Nara M, Newby J, Nilsson P, Nyanin AS, Nystrand J, O'Brien E, Ogilvie CA, Ohnishi H, Ojha ID, Okada K, Ono M, Onuchin V, Oskarsson A, Otterlund I, Oyama K, Ozawa K, Pal D, Palounek APT, Pantuev VS, Papavassiliou V, Park J, Parmar A, Pate SF, Peitzmann T, Peng JC, Peresedov V, Pinkenburg C, Pisani RP, Plasil F, Purschke ML, Purwar AK, Rak J, Ravinovich I, Read KF, Reuter M, Reygers K, Riabov V, Riabov Y, Roche G, Romana A, Rosati M, Rosnet P, Ryu SS, Sadler ME, Saito N, Sakaguchi T, Sakai M, Sakai S, Samsonov V, Sanfratello L, Santo R, Sato HD, Sato S, Sawada S, Schutz Y, Semenov V, Seto R, Shaw MR, Shea TK, Shibata TA, Shigaki K, Shiina T, Silva CL, Silvermyr D, Sim KS, Singh CP, Singh V, Sivertz M, Soldatov A, Soltz RA, Sondheim WE, Sorensen SP, Sourikova IV, Staley F, Stankus PW, Stenlund E, Stepanov M, Ster A, Stoll SP, Sugitate T, Sullivan JP, Takagui EM, Taketani A, Tamai M, Tanaka KH, Tanaka Y, Tanida K, Tannenbaum MJ, Tarján P, Tepe JD, Thomas TL, Tojo J, Torii H, Towell RS, Tserruya I, Tsuruoka H, Tuli SK, Tydesjö H, Tyurin N, van Hecke HW, Velkovska J, Velkovsky M, Veszprémi V, Villatte L, Vinogradov AA, Volkov MA, Vznuzdaev E, Wang XR, Watanabe Y, White SN, Wohn FK, Woody CL, Xie W, Yang Y, Yanovich A, Yokkaichi S, Young GR, Yushmanov IE, Zajc WA, Zhang C, Zhou S, Zhou SJ, Zolin L. Centrality dependence of charm production from a measurement of single electrons in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. Phys Rev Lett 2005; 94:082301. [PMID: 15783878 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.94.082301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2004] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
Abstract
The PHENIX experiment has measured midrapidity transverse momentum spectra (0.4<p(T)<4.0 GeV/c) of single electrons as a function of centrality in Au+Au collisions at sqrt[s(NN)]=200 GeV. Contributions from photon conversions and Dalitz decays of light neutral mesons are measured by introducing a thin (1.7% X0) converter into the PHENIX acceptance and are statistically removed. The subtracted nonphotonic electron spectra are primarily due to the semileptonic decays of hadrons containing heavy quarks, mainly charm at lower p(T). For all centralities, the charm production cross section is found to scale with the nuclear overlap function, T(AA). For minimum-bias collisions the charm cross section per binary collision is N(cc )/T(AA)=622+/-57(stat)+/-160(syst) microb.
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- S S Adler
- Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973-5000, USA
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