Revised Manuscript Received July 10, 1992 abstract: Attenuated total reflection Fourier
transform infrared spectroscopy was used to investigate the secondary structure of the …

Pulmonary surfactant contains at least three unique proteins: SP-A, SP-B and SP-C. SP-B
and SP-C from bovine surfactant are markedly hydrophobic and have molecular masses …

Pulmonary surfactant-associated protein B (SP-B) has been incorporated into vesicles of
dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) or egg yolk phosphatidylcholine (PC) by two …

Pulmonary surfactant is a lipid/protein mixture that reduces surface tension at the respiratory
air–water interface in lungs. Among its nonlipidic components are pulmonary surfactant …

Materials and Methods Materials Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and
phosphatidylglycerol (PG), prepared from egg phosphatidylcholine, were purchased from …

The structure of hydrophobic pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins SP-13 and SP-C
have been studied in different acetonitrile (ACN)/water and trifluorethanol (TFE)/water …

Revised Manuscript Received September 2, 1994s abstract: Dynamic cyclic surface
pressure (jr)-area measurements were performed on surfactant proteins SP-B and SP-C in …

A reverse-phase HPLC protocol for analysis of strictly hydrophobic peptides and proteins
was developed. Peptide aggregation is minimized by using only 25–40% water in methanol …

Pulmonary surfactant is a lipid–protein complex, synthesized and secreted by the respiratory
epithelium of lungs to the alveolar spaces, whose main function is to reduce the surface …

The dominating functional property of pulmonary surfactant is to reduce the surface tension
at the alveolar air/liquid interface, and thereby prevent the lungs from collapsing at the end …