Pulmonary surfactant: a mighty thin film

F Possmayer, YY Zuo, RAW Veldhuizen… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Pulmonary surfactant is a critical component of lung function in healthy individuals. It
functions in part by lowering surface tension in the alveoli, thereby allowing for breathing …

Lipid–protein and protein–protein interactions in the pulmonary surfactant system and their role in lung homeostasis

O Cañadas, B Olmeda, A Alonso… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Pulmonary surfactant is a lipid/protein complex synthesized by the alveolar epithelium and
secreted into the airspaces, where it coats and protects the large respiratory air–liquid …

Mesenchymal Stem Cell exosome delivered Zinc Finger Protein activation of cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator

O Villamizar, SA Waters, T Scott… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that results in a multi‐organ disease with progressive
respiratory decline which leads to premature death. Mutations in the cystic fibrosis …

Human surfactant protein SP-A1 and SP-A2 variants differentially affect the alveolar microenvironment, surfactant structure, regulation and function of the alveolar …

J Floros, N Thorenoor, N Tsotakos… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The human innate host defense molecules, SP-A1 and SP-A2 variants, differentially affect
survival after infection in mice and in lung transplant patients. SP-A interacts with the …

Pathophysiological roles of stress-activated protein kinases in pulmonary fibrosis

Y Kasuya, JD Kim, M Hatano, K Tatsumi… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is one of the most symptomatic progressive fibrotic lung
diseases, in which patients have an extremely poor prognosis. Therefore, understanding the …

Molecular and immune signatures, and pathological trajectories of fatal COVID‐19 lungs defined by in situ spatial single‐cell transcriptome analysis

A Das, W Meng, Z Liu, MM Hasib… - Journal of Medical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite intensive studies during the last 3 years, the pathology and underlying molecular
mechanism of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) remain poorly defined. In this study …

Mouse models of lung-specific SARS-CoV-2 infection with moderate pathological traits

SH Kim, J Kim, JY Jang, H Noh, J Park… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causing coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been a global health concern since 2019. The viral spike …

scTenifoldKnk: an efficient virtual knockout tool for gene function predictions via single-cell gene regulatory network perturbation

D Osorio, Y Zhong, G Li, Q Xu, Y Yang, Y Tian… - Patterns, 2022 - cell.com
Gene knockout (KO) experiments are a proven, powerful approach for studying gene
function. However, systematic KO experiments targeting a large number of genes are …

A comprehensive compilation of data on the relationship between surfactant protein-B (SFTPB) polymorphisms and susceptibility to neonatal respiratory distress …

M Golshan-Tafti, R Bahrami, SA Dastgheib… - Fetal and Pediatric …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background This study aims to explore the association between variations in the Surfactant
Protein-B (SFTPB) gene and the risk of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome (NRDS) …

Recent progress on surfactant protein A: cellular function in lung and kidney disease development

SD King, SY Chen - American Journal of Physiology-Cell …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Pulmonary surfactant is a heterogeneous active surface complex made up of lipids and
proteins. The major glycoprotein in surfactant is surfactant protein A (SP-A), which is …