title: Glycoprotein-340 binds surfactant protein-A (SP-A) and stimulates alveolar macrophage migration in an SP-A-independent manner.
abstract: Glycoprotein-340 (gp-340) was first identified as a surfactant protein (SP)-D-binding molecule purified from lung lavage of patients with alveolar proteinosis (Holmskov, et al., J. Biol. Chem. 1997;272:13743). In purifying SP-A from proteinosis lavage, we isolated a protein that copurifies with SP-A and SP-D and that was later found by protein sequencing to be gp-340. We have shown that soluble gp-340 binds SP-A in a calcium-dependent manner independent of the lectin activity of SP-A. To examine the functional significance of this interaction, we tested the ability of soluble gp-340 to block SP-A binding to and stimulation of the chemotaxis of alveolar macrophages. We found that gp-340 does not affect the binding of SP-A to alveolar macrophages over a wide range of SP-A concentrations, nor does it inhibit the ability of SP-A to stimulate macrophage chemotaxis. We also found that gp-340 alone stimulates the random migration (chemokinesis) of alveolar macrophages in a manner independent of SP-A-stimulated chemotaxis. These results suggest that gp-340 is not a cell-surface receptor necessary for SP-A stimulation of chemotaxis, and show that gp-340 can directly affect macrophage function.
authors: Department of Cell Biology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
authors: M J
authors: MJ
authors: Tino
authors: J R
authors: JR
authors: Wright
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002465:Cell Movement / Q000502:physiology; D002633:Chemotaxis / Q000502:physiology; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D016384:Consensus Sequence; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D016676:Macrophages, Alveolar / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D011510:Proteolipids / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D037662:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A; D037661:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Proteins; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000502:physiology*; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism; D016415:Sequence Alignment; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D011510:Proteolipids; D037662:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Protein A; D037661:Pulmonary Surfactant-Associated Proteins; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D011971:Receptors, Immunologic; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; C116303:glycoprotein 340