An HPLC procedure for the analysis of proteins in lung lavage fluid
| Autor: | J.E. London, Joseph G. Valdez, Lawrence R. Gurley, L.A. Dethloff, Bruce E. Lehnert, W.D. Spall |
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| Rok vydání: | 1988 |
| Předmět: |
Chromatography
medicine.diagnostic_test Elution Biophysics Albumin Proteins Fraction (chemistry) Pulmonary Surfactants Cell Biology Reversed-phase chromatography Blood Proteins Biochemistry High-performance liquid chromatography Blood proteins Rats chemistry.chemical_compound Bronchoalveolar lavage chemistry medicine Trifluoroacetic acid Animals Molecular Biology Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid Chromatography High Pressure Liquid Phospholipids |
| Zdroj: | Analytical biochemistry. 172(2) |
| ISSN: | 0003-2697 |
| Popis: | A high-performance liquid chromatography method has been developed for fractionating the protein components of the lung's extracellular lining fluid, as sampled by bronchoalveolar lavage. With this method, 10 ml (or less) of rat bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) in phosphate-buffered saline can be quantitatively analyzed rapidly and reproducibly. This volume (25% of the lavage fluid volume from one rat using a standardized lavage technique) is made 0.2% with respect to trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and pumped through a microBondapak C18 Radial-PAK HPLC column equilibrated with H2O/0.2% TFA. Six fractions are then eluted with a series of acetonitrile gradients and isocratic steps that progress from H2O/0.2% TFA to 65% CH3 CN/0.2% TFA. Following this, 5 additional fractions are eluted with methanol. All 11 fractions are detected by monitoring the column effluents at 206 nm and can be recovered by lyophilization since all the components of the HPLC solvent system are volatile. Nine of the 11 fractions were found to contain protein. Three of the fractions contained proteins common to the blood compartment. The largest fraction of these was albumin, followed by a fraction containing immunoglobulins. Six other protein fractions appeared to be derived from the cells of the lung inasmuch as they were not detected in plasma. Two fractions contained no protein or phospholipids, whereas the most hydrophobic protein fraction did contain phospholipids. A major phospholipid fraction containing no protein eluted early in the chromatogram and was not detectable at 206 nm. This HPLC procedure offers significant utility for identifying and quantifying alterations in several BALF constituents during the development and progression of environmentally induced lung diseases as well as other pulmonary disorders. |
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