title: Pulmonary SP-A enhances adsorption and appears to induce surface sorting of lipid extract surfactant.
abstract: The effect of surfactant concentration and supplementation with surfactant-associated protein A (SP-A) on the surface activity of lipid extract surfactant (LES) was examined using a captive bubble technique. Adsorption of LES is strongly concentration dependent over the range of 50-1,000 micrograms/ml. Addition of SP-A to LES at low concentrations in the presence of calcium dramatically increases the rate of adsorption. In quasistatic cycling experiments, samples containing SP-A require less compression to achieve low surface tensions even during the first compression cycle. Calculated film compressibilities at 15 mN/m indicate that SP-A alters the surfactant monolayer behavior such that in a small number of cycles the compressibility is indistinguishable from that of pure DPPC. Furthermore, SP-A reduces the incidence of bubble "clicking," suggesting a stabilization of the monolayer at low surface tensions. In dynamic cycling experiments, SP-A reduces compression of the film area required to achieve a low surface tension of approximately 1 mN/m. SP-A eliminated the plateau just below 25 mN/m normally observed during the compression phase with low concentrations of LES and the shoulder observed at approximately 35 mN/m during expansion. In the presence of SP-A and, to a lesser extent with high concentrations of LES, there is a marked lag in the increase in surface tension during the initial part of the dynamic expansion loop, with surface tensions remaining near 1 mN/m for approximately 10% of the increase in bubble area. The results indicate that SP-A enhances phospholipid adsorption during dynamic cycling and may enhance elimination of non-DPPC lipids during cycling.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Physiology, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schürch
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Possmayer
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Cockshutt
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D002118:Calcium / Q000502:physiology; D002417:Cattle; D004492:Edetic Acid / Q000494:pharmacology; D008055:Lipids; D009994:Osmolar Concentration; D011510:Proteolipids / Q000494:pharmacology*; D037662:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A; D037661:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Proteins; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology*; D013500:Surface Tension
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D011510:Proteolipids; D037662:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A; D037661:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Proteins; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D004492:Edetic Acid; D002118:Calcium