Pulmonary surfactant protein SP-C causes packing rearrangements of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine in spread monolayers. |
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Authors: | J Prez-Gil K Nag S Taneva and K M Keough |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada. |
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Abstract: | The hydrophobic pulmonary surfactant protein SP-C has been isolated from porcine lung surfactant, and it has been incorporated into monolayers of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC). The monolayers, which contained 1 mol% of a fluorescently-labeled phosphatidylcholine, were observed under various states of compression in an epifluorescence surface balance. SP-C altered the packing arrangements of DPPC in the monolayer, causing the production of many more, smaller condensed lipid domains in its presence than in its absence. |
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