TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF DIPALMITOYL PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE MONOLAYER STABILITY
TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE OF DIPALMITOYL PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE MONOLAYER STABILITY
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DOI:
10.1152/jappl.1981.51.5.1108
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
GONZALES, J
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作者:
GOERKE, J;GONZALES, J
Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine is the principal component of lung surfactant and knowledge of its behavior as a film spread at the air-water interface is essential for understanding how lung surfactant works. The collapse rates of very low surface tension air-water monolayers of dipalmitoyl, dimyristoyl and palmitoyl-myristoyl phosphatidylcholines were studied at different temperatures. In each case the monolayers became unstable abruptly at temperatures 3-4.degree. C above their bulk lipid-water phase transition temperatures (Tc). This accords with a comparable increase in Tc occurring in bulk systems subjected to high pressure. These findings are also consistent with the behavior of isolated rat lungs, which require higher transmural pressures to maintain a given volume on deflation when kept at temperatures above the Tc of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine.