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Effects of pulmonary surfactant on macrophage migration: Suppression of chemokinesis by surfactant phospholipid and enhancement of chemotaxis by surfactant protein
Author(s) -
TANAKA Fujiho,
SUGA Moritaka,
NISHIKAWA Hiroshi,
MURANAKA Hiroyuki,
ANDO Masayuki
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
respirology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.857
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1440-1843
pISSN - 1323-7799
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1843.1997.tb00064.x
Subject(s) - chemokinesis , chemotaxis , pulmonary surfactant , phospholipid , macrophage , bronchoalveolar lavage , alveolar macrophage , chemistry , in vitro , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , biology , lung , medicine , receptor , membrane
We fractionated the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) from normal rabbit lungs into several fractions by high speed centrifugation and ethanol‐ether extraction. Random migration, chemokinesis and chemotaxis of freshly harvested alveolar macrophages (AM), 24 h cultured AM, and peritoneal exudate cells (PEC) were assayed in vitro using a modified, under agarose method and a blind well chemotactic chamber method. Freshly harvested AM demonstrated little random migration compared with PEC. However, when freshly harvested AM were pre‐incubated in surfactant free medium for 24 h, the cells showed the same rate of migration as PEC. The increased migration of the 24 h cultured AM was partially suppressed by the presence of all BALF fractions containing high proportions of phospholipid. The inhibition by Fr‐L (a fraction enriched in phospholipids) was reversed by normal serum, but not by heat‐inactivated serum, cholesterol, synthetic dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl choline, or indomethacin. Fr‐L markedly suppressed macrophage chemokinesis but did not affect on macrophage chemotaxis. Alternatively, Fr‐P, a delipidated preparation of surfactant consisting mainly of protein, had no effect on macrophage chemokinesis but increased the chemotaxis of PEC to zymosan‐activated serum. We conclude that surfactant phospholipid suppresses AM migration, while surfactant protein increases macrophage chemotaxis.