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- Title
Characteristics of Passive Solute Transport across Primary Rat Alveolar Epithelial Cell Monolayers.
- Authors
Kim, Yong Ho; Kim, Kwang-Jin; D'Argenio, David Z.; Crandall, Edward D.; Suetsugu, Shiro
- Abstract
Primary rat alveolar epithelial cell monolayers (RAECM) were grown without (type I cell-like phenotype, RAECM-I) or with (type II cell-like phenotype, RAECM-II) keratinocyte growth factor to assess passive transport of 11 hydrophilic solutes. We estimated apparent permeability (Papp) in the absence/presence of calcium chelator EGTA to determine the effects of perturbing tight junctions on "equivalent" pores. Papp across RAECM-I and -II in the absence of EGTA are similar and decrease as solute size increases. We modeled Papp of the hydrophilic solutes across RAECM-I/-II as taking place via heterogeneous populations of equivalent pores comprised of small (0.41/0.32 nm radius) and large (9.88/11.56 nm radius) pores, respectively. Total equivalent pore area is dominated by small equivalent pores (99.92–99.97%). The number of small and large equivalent pores in RAECM-I was 8.55 and 1.29 times greater, respectively, than those in RAECM-II. With EGTA, the large pore radius in RAECM-I/-II increased by 1.58/4.34 times and the small equivalent pore radius increased by 1.84/1.90 times, respectively. These results indicate that passive diffusion of hydrophilic solutes across an alveolar epithelium occurs via small and large equivalent pores, reflecting interactions of transmembrane proteins expressed in intercellular tight junctions of alveolar epithelial cells.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL transport; KERATINOCYTE growth factors; TIGHT junctions; MONOMOLECULAR films; CELL junctions; MEMBRANE proteins
- Publication
Membranes, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 5, p331
- ISSN
2077-0375
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/membranes11050331