Pathways for clearance of surfactant protein A from the lung
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
- Vol. 289 (6), L1011-L1018
- https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplung.00250.2005
Abstract
Uptake and degradation of125I-surfactant protein A (SP-A) over a 1-h period was studied in alveolar cells in culture and in isolated perfused lungs to elucidate the mechanism for clearance of the protein from the alveolar space. Specific inhibitors of clathrin- and actin-dependent endocytosis were utilized. In type II cells, uptake of SP-A, compared with controls, was decreased by 60% on incubation with clathrin inhibitors (amantadine and phenylarsine oxide) or with the actin inhibitor cytochalasin D. All agents reduced SP-A metabolism by alveolar macrophages. Untreated rat isolated perfused lungs internalized 36% of instilled SP-A, and 56% of the incorporated SP-A was degraded. Inhibitors of clathrin and actin significantly reduced SP-A uptake by ∼54%, whereas cytochalasin D inhibited SP-A degradation. Coincubation of agents did not produce an additive effect on uptake of SP-A by cultured pneumocytes or isolated perfused lungs, indicating that all agents affected the same pathway. Thus SP-A clears the lung via a clathrin-mediated pathway that requires the polymerization of actin.This publication has 38 references indexed in Scilit:
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