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. 1993 Jan;142(1):241–248.

Accumulation of surfactant protein D in human pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.

E Crouch 1, A Persson 1, D Chang 1
PMCID: PMC1886847  PMID: 8424457

Abstract

Surfactant protein D (SP-D) is a collagenous calcium-dependent carbohydrate-binding protein that is structurally related to the serum mannose-binding proteins and pulmonary surfactant protein A. SP-D was initially characterized as a biosynthetic product of freshly isolated rat type II cells and first purified in chemical amounts from bronchoalveolar lavage of rats with silica-induced alveolar lipoproteinosis. The present studies describe the characterization of human SP-D isolated from therapeutic bronchoalveolar lavage of patients with pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Human proteinosis SP-D was extracted from the 10,000 x g pellet of bronchoalveolar lavage with 100 mmol/L glucose or ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, and specifically bound to and eluted from maltosyl-agarose. The protein cross-reacted with monospecific antibodies to rat SP-D by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunoblot and eluted near the position of rat SP-D on reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatography. When chromatographed on 4% agarose (A-15M) in the presence of ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid, the solubilized human proteinosis SP-D eluted near the void volume and earlier than rat SP-D dodecamers or human SP-D multimers in the lavage supernatant. Two-dimensional sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting of proteins in the lavage pellet with antibodies to the carbohydrate-binding domain of proteinosis human SP-D demonstrated covalently cross-linked multimers of SP-D monomers (43 kd, reduced) and multimers of trimeric components stabilized by disulfide and non-disulfide bonds. These studies describe the isolation and biochemical characterization of human SP-D and demonstrate the abnormal accumulation of this protein in the air spaces of patients with alveolar proteinosis.

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