期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
卷 1798, 期 6, 页码 1281-1284出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.03.008
关键词
Pulmonary surfactant; Lipid-protein interactions; Surfactant proteins; Air-liquid interface; Surface tension; Oxygen transport
资金
- Spanish Ministry of Science [BIO2009-09694, CTQ2006-15610-C02-01-BQU, CSD2007-00010]
- Community Government of Madrid [S0505/MAT/0283, S0505/AMB/0374]
- Complutense University
During respiration, it is accepted that oxygen diffuses passively from the lung alveolar spaces through the respiratory epithelium until reaching the pulmonary capillaries, where blood is oxygenated. It is also widely assumed that pulmonary surfactant, a lipid-protein complex secreted into alveolar spaces, has a main surface active function, essential to stabilize the air-liquid interface, reducing in this way the work of breathing. The results of the present work show that capillary water layers containing enough density of pulmonary surfactant membranes transport oxygen much faster than a pure water phase or a water layer saturated with purely lipidic membranes. Membranes reconstituted from whole pulmonary surfactant organic extract, containing all the lipids plus the hydrophobic surfactant proteins, permit also very rapid oxygen diffusion, substantially faster than achieved by membranes prepared from the surfactant lipid fraction depleted of proteins. A model is proposed suggesting that protein-promoted membrane networks formed by pulmonary surfactant might have important properties to facilitate oxygenation through the thin water layer covering the respiratory surface. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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