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pulmonary surfactant-associated protein B; SP-B; 18 kD pulmonary-surfactant protein; 6 kD protein; pulmonary surfactant-associated proteolipid SPL(Phe) (SFTPB, SFTP3)

Function: - Pulmonary surfactant-associated proteins promote alveolar stability by lowering the surface tension at the air-liquid interface in the peripheral air spaces - SP-B increases the collapse pressure of palmitic acid to nearly 70 millinewtons per meter Structure: - homodimer; disulfide-linked - contains 1 saposin A-type domain - contains 3 saposin B-type domains Compartment: - secreted, extracellular space, surface film Pathology: - defects in SFTPB are the cause of pulmonary surfactant metabolism dysfunction type 1 (pulmonary alveolar proteinosis due to surfactant protein B) - genetic variations in SFTPB are a cause of susceptibility to neonatal respiratory distress syndrome - a variation Ile to Thr at position 131 influences the association between specific alleles of SFTPA1 & neonatal RDS

General

glycoprotein proteolipid secreted protein

Properties

SIZE: entity length = 381 aa MW = 42 kD COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment MOTIF: signal sequence {1-24} Saposin A-type {25-65} Saposin B-type 1 {65-147} MOTIF: cysteine residue {C69} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C143} cysteine residue {C72} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C137} cysteine residue {C100} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C112} cysteine residue {C112} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C100} N-glycosylation site {N129} cysteine residue {C137} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C72} cysteine residue {C143} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C69} Saposin B-type 2 {204-281} MOTIF: cysteine residue {C208} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C277} cysteine residue {C211} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C271} cysteine residue {C235} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C246} cysteine residue {C246} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C235} cysteine residue {C248} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {CINTERCHAIN} cysteine residue {C271} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C211} cysteine residue {C277} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C208} Saposin B-type 3 {295-370} MOTIF: cysteine residue {C299} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C366} cysteine residue {C302} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C360} N-glycosylation site {N311} cysteine residue {C325} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C335} cysteine residue {C335} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C325} cysteine residue {C360} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C302} cysteine residue {C366} MODIFICATION: cysteine residue {C299}

Database Correlations

OMIM correlations UniProt P07988 PFAM correlations Entrez Gene 6439 Kegg hsa:6439

References

  1. UniProt :accession P07988
  2. GeneReviews http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/genetests/lab/gene/SFTPB
  3. SeattleSNPs http://pga.gs.washington.edu/data/sftpb/