期刊
JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
卷 49, 期 11, 页码 2479-2488出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.D800029-JLR200
关键词
air-liquid interface; fluorescence; lamellar bodies; lung; microplate; surface tension
资金
- FWF Austrian Science Fund [P17501]
- Spanish Ministry of Science [BIO2006-03130, CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010 CSD2007-00010]
- Community of Madrid [S0505/MAT/0283]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P 20472] Funding Source: researchfish
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [P17501] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The assessment of new therapeutic strategies to cure surfactant-associated lung disorders would greatly benefit from assay systems allowing routine evaluations of surfactant functions. We present a method to measure surfactant adsorption kinetics into interfacial air-liquid interfaces based on fluorescence microplate readers. The principle of measurement is simple, robust, and reproducible: Wells of a microtiter plate contain an aqueous solution of a light-absorbing agent. Fluorescence is excited and collected from the top of the wells so that fluorescently labeled surfactant injected into the bulk can be detected only once adsorbed into the air-liquid interface. Mass transfer from the bulk to the interface is achieved by orbital shaking implemented in the plate reader instrument. The method has been tested and validated by using phospholipids or surfactants of different origins, by using albumin as surfactant inhibitor, and by comparison of results with Wilhelmy balance measurements. The method is suited for implementation in high-throughput screening routines for conditions affecting, or improving, surfactant film formation. In contrast to surface tension measurements, our method gives a direct readout of the amount of surfactant adsorbing into the interface, including the functionally important amount of material firmly associating with the interfacial film.
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