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@INPROCEEDINGS{Shen:398542,
author = {Shen, Chen and de la Serna, Jorge and Struth, Bernd and
Kloesgen, Beate},
title = {{T}he additional phase transition of {DPPC} monolayers at
high surface pressure confirmed by {GIXD} study},
reportid = {PUBDB-2017-14112},
year = {2016},
note = {The poster won the "Best Poster Award - Second Place" at
the conference.},
abstract = {Pulmonary surfactant forms the alveolar monolayer at the
air/aqueous interface within the lung. During the breathing
process, the surface pressure periodically varies from
~40mN/m up to ~70mN/m. The film is mechanically stable
during this rapid and reversible expansion. The monolayer
consists of $~90\%$ of lipid with $10\%$ integrated
proteins. Among its lipid compounds, di-
palmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) dominates $(~45wt\%).$
No other lipid but DPPC was so far reported to be
compressible to very high surface pressure (~70mN/m [1])
before its monolayer collapsed. Its
liquid-expanded/liquid-condensed (LE/LC) phase transition at
~10mN/m is well known [2].Here we present results from
Langmuir isotherm measurements that evidence a so far not
documented second phase transition at elevated surface
pressure Π (~50mN/m). The varying lateral structures of the
monolayer at 8mN/m, 20mN/m, 30mN/m, 40mN/m, 50mN/m, 60mN/m,
70mN/m were investigated by grazing incidence X-ray
diffraction (GIXD). The results report on the 2D packing
lattice with the inter-chain distance dxy. Moreover, the
tilt angle of the palmitoyl chains was calculated combining
the lattice parameters and the geometrical boundary
conditions. The course of the inter-chain distance versus
surface pressure exhibits three regimes, separated by the
LE/LC transition and the second phase transition at the
higher pressure. This feature may assign a functional task
to DPPC in the lung surfactant since it contributes to the
mechanical stability of the alveolae monolayer and at the
same time allows reduction of the interfacial tension to
~0mN/m.References:[1] G. Ma and H. C. Allen, Langmuir 22
(12), 5341 (2006).[2] K. Y. C. Lee, A. Gopal, A. von Nahmen,
J. A. Zasadzinski, J. Majewski, G. S. Smith, P. B. Howes,
and K. Kjaer, Journal of Chemical Physics 116 (2), 774
(2002).},
month = {Jun},
date = {2016-06-15},
organization = {5th Iberian Biophysics Congress, Porto
(Portugal), 15 Jun 2016 - 17 Jun 2016},
cin = {DOOR / FS-DO},
cid = {I:(DE-H253)HAS-User-20120731 / I:(DE-H253)FS-DO-20120731},
pnm = {6215 - Soft Matter, Health and Life Sciences (POF3-621)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-6215},
experiment = {EXP:(DE-H253)D-BW1-20150101},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)24},
doi = {10.3204/PUBDB-2017-14112},
url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/398542},
}