应用A549细胞单层模型研究蛋白多肽类药物肺部吸收的特性应用A549细胞单层模型研究蛋白多肽类药物肺部吸收的特性

药物通过呼吸进行吸收的路径依次为气管→支气管→肺泡,其中通过肺泡上皮细胞吸收占90％以上。由于肺泡上皮细胞使大分子的蛋白多肽类药物不易通过,是它们渗透的主要屏障,因此对肺泡膜屏障特性、药物透过过程及渗透特性的研究有助于更

Transport of proteins and peptides across human cultured alveolar A549 cell monolayers

AIM: An in vitro cultured monolayer system of alveolar epithelial cells was used as a model to investigate the transport pathway peptides or proteins, salmon calcitonin (sCT), insulin (INS), recombinant hirudin (rHAV2), and recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH), in pulmonary epithelium in vivo. METHODS: Human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cells formed continuous monolayers with growing polycarbonate filters of Transwell plate. Transport studies of macromolecules in the monolayer system were carried out after 6 days in culture. The transport of peptides or proteins with MW 3,400 - 22,000 was studied in cultured human lung adenocarcinoma A549 cell monolayers at different conditions. RESULTS: The results showed that the apparent permeability coefficients (Papp) of these macromolecules across A549 cell monolayers ranged from 2 x 10(-6) to 5 x 10(-6) cm x s(-1) and exhibited good inverse correlation with molecule weight. No concentration, direction and temperature dependence were observed in the permeation of sCT, INS and rHAV2. While the Papp of rhGH in the BA direction (2.25 x 10(-6) cm x s(-1)) was significantly less than that in the reverse direction. The Papp values of rhGH were concentration and temperature independent in the AB direction. CONCLUSION: These findings suggest that the hydrophilic peptides and proteins, salmon calcitonin, insulin, recombinant hirudin, and recombinant human growth hormone used in this study, appeared to penetrate the A549 cell monolayers via a paracellular pathway by passive diffusion mechanism.