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Castellote-Borrell M, Merlina F, Rodríguez AR, Guasch J. Biohybrid Hydrogels for Tumoroid Culture. Adv Biol (Weinh) 2023; 7:e2300118. [PMID: 37505458 DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202300118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 06/21/2023] [Indexed: 07/29/2023]
Abstract
Tumoroids are 3D in vitro models that recapitulate key features of in vivo tumors, such as their architecture - hypoxic center and oxygenated outer layer - in contrast with traditional 2D cell cultures. Moreover, they may be able to preserve the patient-specific signature in terms of cell heterogeneity and mutations. Tumoroids are, therefore, interesting tools for improving the understanding of cancer biology, developing new drugs, and potentially designing personalized therapeutic plans. Currently, tumoroids are most often established using basement membrane extracts (BME), which provide a multitude of biological cues. However, BME are characterized by a lack of well-defined composition, limited reproducibility, and potential immunogenicity as a consequence of their natural origin. Synthetic polymers can overcome these problems but lack structural and biochemical complexity, which can limit the functional capabilities of organoids. Biohybrid hydrogels consisting of both natural and synthetic components can combine their advantages and offer superior 3D culture systems. In this review, it is summarized efforts devoted to producing tumoroids using different types of biohybrid hydrogels, which are classified according to their crosslinking mechanism.
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Affiliation(s)
- Miquel Castellote-Borrell
- Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Madrid, 28029, Spain
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Nakanishi J, Yamamoto S. Static and photoresponsive dynamic materials to dissect physical regulation of cellular functions. Biomater Sci 2022; 10:6116-6134. [PMID: 36111810 DOI: 10.1039/d2bm00789d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
Recent progress in mechanobiology has highlighted the importance of physical cues, such as mechanics, geometry (size), topography, and porosity, in the determination of cellular activities and fates, in addition to biochemical factors derived from their surroundings. In this review, we will first provide an overview of how such fundamental insights are identified by synchronizing the hierarchical nature of biological systems and static materials with tunable physical cues. Thereafter, we will explain the photoresponsive dynamic biomaterials to dissect the spatiotemporal aspects of the dependence of biological functions on physical cues.
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- Jun Nakanishi
- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. .,Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Japan.,Graduate School of Advanced Engineering, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
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- Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan. .,Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Guo T, He C, Venado A, Zhou Y. Extracellular Matrix Stiffness in Lung Health and Disease. Compr Physiol 2022; 12:3523-3558. [PMID: 35766837 PMCID: PMC10088466 DOI: 10.1002/cphy.c210032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The extracellular matrix (ECM) provides structural support and imparts a wide variety of environmental cues to cells. In the past decade, a growing body of work revealed that the mechanical properties of the ECM, commonly known as matrix stiffness, regulate the fundamental cellular processes of the lung. There is growing appreciation that mechanical interplays between cells and associated ECM are essential to maintain lung homeostasis. Dysregulation of ECM-derived mechanical signaling via altered mechanosensing and mechanotransduction pathways is associated with many common lung diseases. Matrix stiffening is a hallmark of lung fibrosis. The stiffened ECM is not merely a sequelae of lung fibrosis but can actively drive the progression of fibrotic lung disease. In this article, we provide a comprehensive view on the role of matrix stiffness in lung health and disease. We begin by summarizing the effects of matrix stiffness on the function and behavior of various lung cell types and on regulation of biomolecule activity and key physiological processes, including host immune response and cellular metabolism. We discuss the potential mechanisms by which cells probe matrix stiffness and convert mechanical signals to regulate gene expression. We highlight the factors that govern matrix stiffness and outline the role of matrix stiffness in lung development and the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and lung cancer. We envision targeting of deleterious matrix mechanical cues for treatment of fibrotic lung disease. Advances in technologies for matrix stiffness measurements and design of stiffness-tunable matrix substrates are also explored. © 2022 American Physiological Society. Compr Physiol 12:3523-3558, 2022.
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- Ting Guo
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,Department of Respiratory Medicine, the Second Xiangya Hospital, Central-South University, Changsha, Hunan, China
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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- Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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Santos F, Valderas-Gutiérrez J, Pérez Del Río E, Castellote-Borrell M, Rodriguez XR, Veciana J, Ratera I, Guasch J. Enhanced human T cell expansion with inverse opal hydrogels. Biomater Sci 2022; 10:3730-3738. [PMID: 35660816 DOI: 10.1039/d2bm00486k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
Advanced personalized immunotherapies still have to overcome several biomedical and technical limitations before they become a routine cancer treatment in spite of recent achievements. In adoptive cell therapy (ACT), the capacity to obtain adequate numbers of therapeutic T cells in the patients following ex vivo treatment should be improved. Moreover, the time and costs to produce these T cells should be reduced. In this work, inverse opal (IOPAL) 3D hydrogels consisting of poly(ethylene) glycol (PEG) covalently combined with heparin were engineered to resemble the environment of lymph nodes, where T cells get activated and proliferate. The introduction of an IOPAL strategy allowed a precise control on the porosity of the hydrogels, providing an increase in the proliferation of primary human CD4+ T cells, when compared with state-of-the-art expansion systems. Additionally, the IOPAL hydrogels also showed a superior expansion compared to hydrogels with the same composition, but without the predetermined pore structure. In summary, we have shown the beneficial effect of having an IOPAL architecture in our 3D hydrogels to help achieving large numbers of cells, while maintaining the desired selected phenotypes required for ACT.
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- Fabião Santos
- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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- Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain. .,Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN), Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain.,Dynamic Biomimetics for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, 08193, Spain
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Missirlis D, Baños M, Lussier F, Spatz JP. Facile and Versatile Method for Micropatterning Poly(acrylamide) Hydrogels Using Photocleavable Comonomers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:3643-3652. [PMID: 35006666 PMCID: PMC8796170 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c17901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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We here present a micropatterning strategy to introduce small molecules and ligands on patterns of arbitrary shapes on the surface of poly(acrylamide)-based hydrogels. The main advantages of the presented approach are the ease of use, the lack of need to prefabricate photomasks, the use of mild UV light and biocompatible bioconjugation chemistries, and the capacity to pattern low-molecular-weight ligands, such as peptides, peptidomimetics, or DNA fragments. To achieve the above, a monomer containing a caged amine (NVOC group) was co-polymerized in the hydrogel network; upon UV light illumination using a commercially available setup, primary amines were locally deprotected and served as reactive groups for further functionalization. Cell patterning on various cell adhesive ligands was demonstrated, with cells responding to a combination of pattern shape and substrate elasticity. The approach is compatible with standard traction force microscopy (TFM) experimentation and can further be extended to reference-free TFM.
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- Dimitris Missirlis
- Department
of Cellular Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute
for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- . Tel: +49 6221 486430
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- Department
of Cellular Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute
for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department
of Cellular Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute
for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department
of Cellular Biophysics, Max-Planck-Institute
for Medical Research, Jahnstr. 29, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- Department
of Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Institute, Heidelberg University, INF-253, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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Pérez del Río E, Santos F, Rodriguez Rodriguez X, Martínez-Miguel M, Roca-Pinilla R, Arís A, Garcia-Fruitós E, Veciana J, Spatz JP, Ratera I, Guasch J. CCL21-loaded 3D hydrogels for T cell expansion and differentiation. Biomaterials 2020; 259:120313. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2020.120313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2020] [Revised: 08/08/2020] [Accepted: 08/08/2020] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Wearable piezoelectric mass sensor based on pH sensitive hydrogels for sweat pH monitoring. Sci Rep 2020; 10:10854. [PMID: 32616743 PMCID: PMC7331702 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67706-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
Abstract
Colorimetric and electrochemical (bio)sensors are commonly employed in wearable platforms for sweat monitoring; nevertheless, they suffer from low stability of the sensitive element. In contrast, mass-(bio)sensors are commonly used for analyte detection at laboratory level only, due to their rigidity. To overcome these limitations, a flexible mass-(bio)sensor for sweat pH sensing is proposed. The device exploits the flexibility of piezoelectric AlN membranes fabricated on a polyimide substrate combined to the sensitive properties of a pH responsive hydrogel based on PEG-DA/CEA molecules. A resonant frequency shift is recorded due to the hydrogel swelling/shrinking at several pH. Our device shows a responsivity of about 12 kHz/pH unit when measured in artificial sweat formulation in the pH range 3–8. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that hydrogel mass variations are sensed by a flexible resonator, fostering the development of a new class of compliant and wearable devices.
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Bandara SR, Molley TG, Kim H, Bharath PA, Kilian KA, Leal C. The structural fate of lipid nanoparticles in the extracellular matrix. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2020; 7:125-134. [PMID: 31942243 PMCID: PMC6961836 DOI: 10.1039/c9mh00835g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Drug-loaded liposomes are the most successful nanomedicine to date, with multiple FDA-approved systems for a myriad of diseases. While liposome circulation time in blood and retention in tissues have been studied in detail, the structural fate of liposomes-and nanoparticles in general-in the body has not been extensively investigated. Here, we explore the interactions of liposomes with synthetic and natural hydrogel materials to understand how the natural extracellular matrix influences liposome structural characteristics. Small angle X-ray scattering, confocal microscopy, and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy data demonstrate that poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), gelatin, alginate, and Matrigel® hydrogels cause 200-nm liposomes of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) to transform into micrometer-sized aggregates. These aggregates are composed of multilamellar vesicles around 100 nm in diameter with a mean interlamellar separation of 5.5 nm. Protecting the liposomes with a corona of PEG damps this restructuring effect, making the multilamellar vesicles less stable. We attribute this unilamellar to multilamellar transition to an osmotic driving force from the hydrogel environment. This lipid restructuring has broad ramifications in the design and use of nanomedicines, and in understanding the fate and function of natural lipid-based materials within the tissue microenvironment.
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- Sarith R. Bandara
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- School of Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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- Center for Biomaterials, Biomedical Research Institute, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- School of Chemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Australian Centre for Nanomedicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Vania V, Wang L, Tjakra M, Zhang T, Qiu J, Tan Y, Wang G. The interplay of signaling pathway in endothelial cells-matrix stiffness dependency with targeted-therapeutic drugs. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Basis Dis 2019; 1866:165645. [PMID: 31866415 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbadis.2019.165645] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2019] [Revised: 11/17/2019] [Accepted: 12/14/2019] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
Abstract
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) have been one of the major causes of human deaths in the world. The study of CVDs has focused on cell chemotaxis for decades. With the advances in mechanobiology, accumulating evidence has demonstrated the influence of mechanical stimuli on arterial pathophysiology and endothelial dysfunction that is a hallmark of atherosclerosis development. An increasing number of drugs have been exploited to decrease the stiffness of vascular tissue for CVDs therapy. However, the underlying mechanisms have yet to be explored. This review aims to summarize how matrix stiffness mediates atherogenesis through various important signaling pathways in endothelial cells and cellular mechanophenotype, including RhoA/Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and Hippo pathways. We also highlight the roles of putative mechanosensitive non-coding RNAs in matrix stiffness-mediated atherogenesis. Finally, we describe the usage of tunable hydrogel and its future strategy to improve our knowledge underlying matrix stiffness-mediated CVDs mechanism.
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- Vicki Vania
- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China.
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- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Shenzhen Research Institute, Shenzhen, China; Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China
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- Key Laboratory for Biorheological Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, State and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Vascular Implants, Bioengineering College of Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China.
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Diaz C, Neubauer S, Rechenmacher F, Kessler H, Missirlis D. Recruitment of integrin ανβ3 to integrin α5β1-induced clusters enables focal adhesion maturation and cell spreading. J Cell Sci 2019; 133:jcs.232702. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.232702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/05/2019] [Accepted: 11/25/2019] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The major fibronectin (FN) binding integrins α5β1 and αvβ3 exhibit cooperativity during cell adhesion, migration and mechanosensing, through mechanisms that are not yet fully resolved. Exploiting mechanically-tunable, nano-patterned substrates, and peptidomimetic ligands designed to selectively bind corresponding integrins, we report that focal adhesions (FAs) of endothelial cells assembled on integrin α5β1-selective substrates, rapidly recruit αvβ3 integrins, but not vice versa. Blocking of integrin αvβ3 hindered FA maturation and cell spreading on α5β1-selective substrates, indicating a mechanism dependent on extracellular ligand binding and highlighting the requirement of αvβ3 engagement for efficient adhesion. Recruitment of αvβ3 integrins additionally occurred on hydrogel substrates of varying mechanical properties, above a threshold stiffness supporting FA formation. Mechanistic studies revealed the need for soluble factors present in serum to allow recruitment, and excluded exogenous, or endogenous, FN as the responsible ligand for integrin αvβ3 accumulation to adhesion clusters. Our findings highlight a novel mechanism of integrin co-operation and the critical role for αvβ3 integrins in promoting cell adhesion on α5β1-selective substrates.
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- Carolina Diaz
- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research; postal address: Jahnstr. 29, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Institute, Heidelberg University; postal address: INF 253, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Institute for Advanced Study and Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München; postal address: Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747, Garching, Germany
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- Institute for Advanced Study and Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München; postal address: Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747, Garching, Germany
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- Institute for Advanced Study and Center for Integrated Protein Science (CIPSM), Technische Universität München; postal address: Lichtenbergstr. 4, D-85747, Garching, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research; postal address: Jahnstr. 29, D-69120, Heidelberg, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Chemistry Institute, Heidelberg University; postal address: INF 253, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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Lemma ED, Spagnolo B, De Vittorio M, Pisanello F. Studying Cell Mechanobiology in 3D: The Two-Photon Lithography Approach. Trends Biotechnol 2018; 37:358-372. [PMID: 30343948 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2018.09.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2018] [Revised: 09/19/2018] [Accepted: 09/19/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
Abstract
Two-photon lithography is a laser writing technique that can produce 3D microstructures with resolutions below the diffraction limit. This review focuses on its applications to study mechanical properties of cells, an emerging field known as mechanobiology. We review 3D structural designs and materials in the context of new experimental designs, including estimating forces exerted by single cells, studying selective adhesion on substrates, and creating 3D networks of cells. We then focus on emerging applications, including structures for assessing cancer cell invasiveness, whose migration properties depend on the cell mechanical response to the environment, and 3D architectures and materials to study stem cell differentiation, as 3D structure shape and patterning play a key role in defining cell fates.
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- Enrico Domenico Lemma
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Via Barsanti snc, 73010 Arnesano, Italy; Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, via per Monteroni snc, 73100 Lecce, Italy; Current address: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Zoologisches Institut, Zell- und Neurobiologie, Fritz-Haber-Weg 4, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany.
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- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Via Barsanti snc, 73010 Arnesano, Italy
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- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Via Barsanti snc, 73010 Arnesano, Italy; Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, via per Monteroni snc, 73100 Lecce, Italy; These authors equally contributed to this work
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- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Center for Biomolecular Nanotechnologies, Via Barsanti snc, 73010 Arnesano, Italy; These authors equally contributed to this work.
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Tatkiewicz WI, Seras-Franzoso J, Garcia-Fruitós E, Vazquez E, Kyvik AR, Guasch J, Villaverde A, Veciana J, Ratera I. Surface-Bound Gradient Deposition of Protein Nanoparticles for Cell Motility Studies. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:25779-25786. [PMID: 29989793 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b06821] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
Abstract
A versatile evaporation-assisted methodology based on the coffee-drop effect is described to deposit nanoparticles on surfaces, obtaining for the first time patterned gradients of protein nanoparticles (pNPs) by using a simple custom-made device. Fully controllable patterns with specific periodicities consisting of stripes with different widths and distinct nanoparticle concentration as well as gradients can be produced over large areas (∼10 cm2) in a fast (up to 10 mm2/min), reproducible, and cost-effective manner using an operational protocol optimized by an evolutionary algorithm. The developed method opens the possibility to decorate surfaces "a-la-carte" with pNPs enabling different categories of high-throughput studies on cell motility.
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- Witold I Tatkiewicz
- Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials , Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) , Campus UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials , Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) , Campus UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials , Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) , Campus UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
- Dynamic Biomaterials for Cancer Immunotherapy , Max Planck Partner Group, ICMAB-CSIC , Campus UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials , Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) , Campus UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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- Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials , Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (CSIC) , Campus UAB , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
- CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN) , 08193 Bellaterra , Spain
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Guasch J, Muth CA, Diemer J, Riahinezhad H, Spatz JP. Integrin-Assisted T-Cell Activation on Nanostructured Hydrogels. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:6110-6116. [PMID: 28876947 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) has shown very promising results as treatment for cancer in a few clinical trials, such as the complete remissions of otherwise terminal leukemia patients. Nevertheless, the introduction of ACT into clinics requires overcoming not only medical but also technical challenges, such as the ex vivo expansion of large amounts of specific T-cells. Nanostructured surfaces represent a novel T-cell stimulation technique that enables us to fine-tune the density and orientation of activating molecules presented to the cells. In this work, we studied the influence of integrin-mediated cell-adhesion on T-cell activation, proliferation, and differentiation using nanostructured surfaces, which provide a well-defined system at the nanoscale compared with standard cultures. Specifically, we synthesized a polymeric polyethylene glycol (PEG) hydrogel cross-linked with two fibronectin-derived peptides, cyclic Arg-Gly-Asp (cRGD) and cyclic Leu-Asp-Val (cLDV), that are known to activate different integrins. Moreover, the hydrogels were decorated with a quasi-hexagonal array of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) functionalized with the activating antibody CD3 to initiate T-cell activation. Both cLDV and cRGD hydrogels showed higher T-cell activation (CD69 expression and IL-2 secretion) than nonfunctionalized PEG hydrogels. However, only the cRGD hydrogels clearly supported proliferation giving a higher proportion of cells with memory (CD4+CD45RO+) than naı̈ve (CD4+CD45RA+) phenotypes when interparticle distances smaller than 150 nm were used. Thus, T-cell proliferation can be enhanced by the activation of integrins through the RGD sequence.
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- Judith Guasch
- Dynamic Biomaterials for Cancer Immunotherapy, Max Planck Partner Group, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) , Campus UAB, Bellaterra, E-08193, Spain
- Department of Molecular Nanoscience and Organic Materials, Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) and Networking Research Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) , Campus UAB, Bellaterra, E-08193, Spain
- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg , Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg , Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg , Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg , Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
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- Department of Cellular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research , Jahnstrasse 29, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg , Im Neuenheimer Feld 253, Heidelberg, D-69120, Germany
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Alameddine R, Wahl A, Pi F, Bouzalmate K, Limozin L, Charrier A, Sengupta K. Printing Functional Protein Nanodots on Soft Elastomers: From Transfer Mechanism to Cell Mechanosensing. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:4284-4290. [PMID: 28580787 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b01254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Living cells sense the physical and chemical nature of their micro/nano environment with exquisite sensitivity. In this context, there is a growing need to functionalize soft materials with micro/nanoscale biochemical patterns for applications in mechanobiology. This, however, is still an engineering challenge. Here a new method is proposed, where submicronic protein-patterns are first formed on glass and are then printed on to an elastomer. The degree of transfer is shown to be governed mainly by hydrophobic interactions and to be influenced by grafting an appropriate fluorophore onto the core protein of interest. The transfer mechanism is probed by measuring the forces of adhesion/cohesion using atomic force microscopy. The transfer of functional arrays of dots with size down to about 400 nm, on elastomers with stiffness ranging from 3 kPa to 7 MPa, is demonstrated. Pilot studies on adhesion of T lymphocytes on such soft patterned substrates are reported.
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CINAM , Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CINAM , Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, INSERM, LAI , Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CINAM , Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille University, CNRS, CINAM , Marseille, France
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Yang Y, Wang K, Gu X, Leong KW. Biophysical Regulation of Cell Behavior-Cross Talk between Substrate Stiffness and Nanotopography. ENGINEERING (BEIJING, CHINA) 2017; 3:36-54. [PMID: 29071164 PMCID: PMC5653318 DOI: 10.1016/j.eng.2017.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/04/2023]
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The stiffness and nanotopographical characteristics of the extracellular matrix (ECM) influence numerous developmental, physiological, and pathological processes in vivo. These biophysical cues have therefore been applied to modulate almost all aspects of cell behavior, from cell adhesion and spreading to proliferation and differentiation. Delineation of the biophysical modulation of cell behavior is critical to the rational design of new biomaterials, implants, and medical devices. The effects of stiffness and topographical cues on cell behavior have previously been reviewed, respectively; however, the interwoven effects of stiffness and nanotopographical cues on cell behavior have not been well described, despite similarities in phenotypic manifestations. Herein, we first review the effects of substrate stiffness and nanotopography on cell behavior, and then focus on intracellular transmission of the biophysical signals from integrins to nucleus. Attempts are made to connect extracellular regulation of cell behavior with the biophysical cues. We then discuss the challenges in dissecting the biophysical regulation of cell behavior and in translating the mechanistic understanding of these cues to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
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- Yong Yang
- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV 26506, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Neuroregeneration of Jiangsu and the Ministry of Education, Co-Innovation Center of Neuroregeneration, Nantong University, Nantong, Jiangsu 226001, China
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA
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Ye K, Cao L, Li S, Yu L, Ding J. Interplay of Matrix Stiffness and Cell-Cell Contact in Regulating Differentiation of Stem Cells. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:21903-13. [PMID: 26600563 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 94] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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Stem cells are capable of sensing and responding to the mechanical properties of extracellular matrixes (ECMs). It is well-known that, while osteogenesis is promoted on the stiff matrixes, adipogenesis is enhanced on the soft ones. Herein, we report an "abnormal" tendency of matrix-stiffness-directed stem cell differentiation. Well-defined nanoarrays of cell-adhesive arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) peptides were modified onto the surfaces of persistently nonfouling poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels to achieve controlled specific cell adhesion and simultaneously eliminate nonspecific protein adsorption. Mesenchymal stem cells were cultivated on the RGD-nanopatterned PEG hydrogels with the same RGD nanospacing but different hydrogel stiffnesses and incubated in the induction medium to examine the effect of matrix stiffness on osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation extents. When stem cells were kept at a low density during the induction period, the differentiation tendency was consistent with the previous reports in the literature; however, both lineage commitments were favored on the stiff matrices at a high cell density. We interpreted such a complicated stiffness effect at a high cell density in two-dimensional culture as the interplay of matrix stiffness and cell-cell contact. As a result, this study strengthens the essence of the stiffness effect and highlights the combinatory effects of ECM cues and cell cues on stem cell differentiation.
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- Kai Ye
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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Abdeen AA, Lee J, Kilian KA. Capturing extracellular matrix properties in vitro: Microengineering materials to decipher cell and tissue level processes. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2016; 241:930-8. [PMID: 27075930 PMCID: PMC4950351 DOI: 10.1177/1535370216644532] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Rapid advances in biology have led to the establishment of new fields with tremendous translational potential including regenerative medicine and immunoengineering. One commonality to these fields is the need to extract cells for manipulation in vitro; however, results obtained in laboratory cell culture will often differ widely from observations made in vivo. To more closely emulate native cell biology in the laboratory, designer engineered environments have proved a successful methodology to decipher the properties of the extracellular matrix that govern cellular decision making. Here, we present an overview of matrix properties that affect cell behavior, strategies for recapitulating important parameters in vitro, and examples of how these properties can affect cell and tissue level processes, with emphasis on leveraging these tools for immunoengineering.
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- Amr A Abdeen
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Li Y, Kilian KA. Bridging the Gap: From 2D Cell Culture to 3D Microengineered Extracellular Matrices. Adv Healthc Mater 2015; 4:2780-96. [PMID: 26592366 PMCID: PMC4780579 DOI: 10.1002/adhm.201500427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/04/2015] [Revised: 08/05/2015] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Historically the culture of mammalian cells in the laboratory has been performed on planar substrates with media cocktails that are optimized to maintain phenotype. However, it is becoming increasingly clear that much of biology discerned from 2D studies does not translate well to the 3D microenvironment. Over the last several decades, 2D and 3D microengineering approaches have been developed that better recapitulate the complex architecture and properties of in vivo tissue. Inspired by the infrastructure of the microelectronics industry, lithographic patterning approaches have taken center stage because of the ease in which cell-sized features can be engineered on surfaces and within a broad range of biocompatible materials. Patterning and templating techniques enable precise control over extracellular matrix properties including: composition, mechanics, geometry, cell-cell contact, and diffusion. In this review article we explore how the field of engineered extracellular matrices has evolved with the development of new hydrogel chemistry and the maturation of micro- and nano- fabrication. Guided by the spatiotemporal regulation of cell state in developing tissues, techniques for micropatterning in 2D, pseudo-3D systems, and patterning within 3D hydrogels will be discussed in the context of translating the information gained from 2D systems to synthetic engineered 3D tissues.
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- Yanfen Li
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, 61801
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, Institute for Genomic Biology, Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana IL, 61801
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Li S, Wang X, Cao B, Ye K, Li Z, Ding J. Effects of Nanoscale Spatial Arrangement of Arginine-Glycine-Aspartate Peptides on Dedifferentiation of Chondrocytes. NANO LETTERS 2015; 15:7755-7765. [PMID: 26503136 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Cell dedifferentiation is of much importance in many cases such as the classic problem of dedifferentiation of chondrocytes during in vitro culture in cartilage tissue engineering. While cell differentiation has been much investigated, studies of cell dedifferentiation are limited, and the nanocues of cell dedifferentiation have little been reported. Herein, we prepared nanopatterns and micro/nanopatterns of cell-adhesive arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) peptides on nonfouling poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels to examine the effects of RGD nanospacing on adhesion and dedifferentiation of chondrocytes. The relatively larger RGD nanospacing above 70 nm was found to enhance the maintainence of the chondrocyte phenotype in two-dimensional culture, albeit not beneficial for adhesion of chondrocytes. A unique micro/nanopattern was employed to decouple cell spreading, cell shape, and cell-cell contact from RGD nanospacing. Under given spreading size and shape of single cells, the large RGD nanospacing was still in favor of preserving the normal phenotype of chondrocytes. Hence, the nanoscale spatial arrangement of cell-adhesive ligands affords a new independent regulator of cell dedifferentiation, which should be taken into consideration in biomaterial design for regenerative medicine.
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- Shiyu Li
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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Abdeen AA, Lee J, Mo SH, Kilian KA. Spatially defined stem cell-laden hydrogel islands for directing endothelial tubulogenesis. J Mater Chem B 2015; 3:7896-7898. [PMID: 26693014 DOI: 10.1039/c5tb01294e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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The spatiotemporal coordination of angiogenesis in synthetic materials is important for mimicking natural tissue morphogenesis. Here we report patterned hydrogel encapsulation of mesenchymal stem cells to direct endothelial tubulogenesis in co-culture. Tubulogenesis occurs preferentially over MSC patterns, suggesting this strategy may prove useful in guiding the design of heterotypic engineered tissues.
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Pi F, Dillard P, Alameddine R, Benard E, Wahl A, Ozerov I, Charrier A, Limozin L, Sengupta K. Size-Tunable Organic Nanodot Arrays: A Versatile Platform for Manipulating and Imaging Cells. NANO LETTERS 2015; 15:5178-5184. [PMID: 26161675 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Arrays of protein nanodots with dot-size tuned independently of spacing (e.g., ∼100 to 600 nm diameter for 900 nm spacing) are fabricated. The mechanism of size control is demonstrated, by numerical simulations, to arise from shadow effects during deposition of a sacrificial metal mask. We functionalize the nanodots with antibodies and embed them in a polymer-cushion or in lipid-bilayers or transfer them to soft elastomers. Their ability to influence cell architecture and local membrane organization is demonstrated in T-lymphocytes, using reflection interference contrast and total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy.
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- Fuwei Pi
- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
- ‡Laboratoire Adhésion and Inflammation, Aix-Marseille Université/Inserm U1067/CNRS-UMR7333, Marseille13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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- ‡Laboratoire Adhésion and Inflammation, Aix-Marseille Université/Inserm U1067/CNRS-UMR7333, Marseille13288, France
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- †Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CINaM-UMR 7325, Marseille 13288, France
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Ye K, Wang X, Cao L, Li S, Li Z, Yu L, Ding J. Matrix Stiffness and Nanoscale Spatial Organization of Cell-Adhesive Ligands Direct Stem Cell Fate. NANO LETTERS 2015; 15:4720-9. [PMID: 26027605 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 227] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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One of the breakthroughs in biomaterials and regenerative medicine in the latest decade is the finding that matrix stiffness affords a crucial physical cue of stem cell differentiation. This statement was recently challenged by another understanding that protein tethering on material surfaces instead of matrix stiffness was the essential cue to regulate stem cells. Herein, we employed nonfouling poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogels as the matrix to prevent nonspecific protein adsorption, and meanwhile covalently bound cell-adhesive arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) peptides onto the hydrogel surfaces in the form of well-defined nanoarrays to control specific cell adhesion. This approach enables the decoupling of the effects of matrix stiffness and surface chemistry. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) were cultured on four substrates (two compressive moduli of the PEG hydrogels multiplied by two RGD nanospacings) and incubated in the mixed osteogenic and adipogenic medium. The results illustrate unambiguously that matrix stiffness is a potent regulator of stem cell differentiation. Moreover, we reveal that RGD nanospacing affects spreading area and differentiation of rat MSCs, regardless of the hydrogel stiffness. Therefore, both matrix stiffness and nanoscale spatial organization of cell-adhesive ligands direct stem cell fate.
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- Kai Ye
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Collaborative Innovation Center of Polymers and Polymer Composite Materials, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Xu X, He Z, Wang Q, Chen F, Fu Q. Self-Assembly of PS-b-PDMS on a Tunable PDMS Template with Nanoscale Channels and Enhanced Anisotropic Wetting. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:4605-4611. [PMID: 25844896 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b00340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In this article, we systematically studied the self-assembly of poly(styrene-block-dimethylsiloxane) (PS-b-PDMS) on a poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) substrate with nanoscale channels. The channeled PDMS substrate was achieved by a simple replica molding method. To decrease the effect that the subsequent solvent treatments had in distorting the soft PDMS substrate, a simple UV/O3 treatment was provided before the self-assembly, resulting in a relatively stable, harder and hydrophilic silicon oxide (SiO2) layer on the channeled PDMS surface. Ultimately, the isotropic SiO2 nanopatterns with spherical and long cylindrical morphologies were successfully fabricated by the self-assembly of two kinds of PS-b-PDMS on the PDMS substrate with nanoscale channels, respectively. In particular, we demonstrated that the introduction of isotropic SiO2 patterns is an effective approach to greatly enhance anisotropic wetting rather than that of the anisotropic structure with channels.
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Sauter A, Mc Duffie Y, Boehm H, Martinez A, Spatz JP, Appel S. Surface-mediated priming during in vitro generation of monocyte-derived dendritic cells. Scand J Immunol 2015; 81:56-65. [PMID: 25376441 DOI: 10.1111/sji.12246] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Revised: 06/16/2014] [Accepted: 10/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Ex vivo-generated human dendritic cells (DC) are most commonly generated from monocytes using standard cell culture dishes. To elucidate the effect of the plastic surface during the differentiation process, we compared a standard adhesive plastic dish with four different mainly non-adherent surfaces. Untouched monocytes were cultured for 3 days in the presence of IL-4 and GM-CSF. Time-lapse videos were recorded, and the phenotype of the cells was analysed by flow cytometry. The cytokine profiles were analysed using a 25-plex cytokine assay. The use of non-adherent surfaces led to a significant reduction in expression of CD14 and CD38, and a significant increase in expression of CD86 compared to standard culture dishes. Expression levels of DC-SIGN and PD-L2 were reduced significantly on cells cultured on non-adherent surfaces. The cytokine production was independent on the surface used. The surface-mediated priming should therefore be considered when aiming to induce specific immune responses. This is especially important with regard to DC-based immunotherapy, where an adjustment of the surface during the DC generation process might have highly beneficial effects.
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- A Sauter
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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Wang X, Li S, Yan C, Liu P, Ding J. Fabrication of RGD micro/nanopattern and corresponding study of stem cell differentiation. NANO LETTERS 2015; 15:1457-67. [PMID: 25697623 DOI: 10.1021/nl5049862] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Micropatterns of gold (Au) nanoarrays on inorganic and polymeric substrates were fabricated by combining block copolymer micelle nanolithography to obtain gold nanoarrays on glass, photolithography plus hydrofluoric acid (HF) etching to generate microislands, and transfer lithography to shift the gold micro/nanopatterns from glass to a bioinert poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hydrogel surface. Further the modification of the gold nanodots via cell-adhesive arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) ligands was carried out to achieve peptide micro/nanopatterns. Whereas the micro/nanopatterns of noble metals could be useful in various applications, the peptide micro/nanopatterns especially enable persistent cell localization on adhesive micropatterns of RGD nanoarrays on the background of potently nonfouling PEG hydrogels, and thus offer a powerful tool to investigate cell-material interactions on both molecular and cellular levels. As a demonstration, we cultured human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) on micro/nanopatterns with RGD nanoarrays of nanospacings 46 and 95 nm, and with micropans of side lengths 35 and 65 μm (four groups in total). The osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of hMSCs was conducted, and the potential effect of RGD nanospacing and the effect of cell spreading size on cell differentiation were decoupled for the first time. The results reveal that RGD nanospacing, independent of cell spreading size, acts as a strong regulator of cell tension and stem cell differentiation, which cannot be concluded unambiguously based on either merely micropatterns or nanopatterns.
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- Xuan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University , Shanghai 200433, China
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Walters NJ, Gentleman E. Evolving insights in cell-matrix interactions: elucidating how non-soluble properties of the extracellular niche direct stem cell fate. Acta Biomater 2015; 11:3-16. [PMID: 25266503 PMCID: PMC5833939 DOI: 10.1016/j.actbio.2014.09.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2014] [Revised: 08/22/2014] [Accepted: 09/22/2014] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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The role of soluble messengers in directing cellular behaviours has been recognized for decades. However, many cellular processes, including adhesion, migration and stem cell differentiation, are also governed by chemical and physical interactions with non-soluble components of the extracellular matrix (ECM). Among other effects, a cell's perception of nanoscale features such as substrate topography and ligand presentation, and its ability to deform the matrix via the generation of cytoskeletal tension play fundamental roles in these cellular processes. As a result, many biomaterials-based tissue engineering and regenerative medicine strategies aim to harness the cell's perception of substrate stiffness and nanoscale features to direct particular behaviours. However, since cell-ECM interactions vary considerably between two-dimensional (2-D) and three-dimensional (3-D) models, understanding their influence over normal and pathological cell responses in 3-D systems that better mimic the in vivo microenvironment is essential to translate such insights efficiently into medical therapies. This review summarizes the key findings in these areas and discusses how insights from 2-D biomaterials are being used to examine cellular behaviours in more complex 3-D hydrogel systems, in which not only matrix stiffness, but also degradability, plays an important role, and in which defining the nanoscale ligand presentation presents an additional challenge.
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- Nick J Walters
- Division of Biomaterials & Tissue Engineering, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London WC1X 8LD, UK
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- Craniofacial Development & Stem Cell Biology, King's College London, London SE1 9RT, UK.
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Rodda AE, Meagher L, Nisbet DR, Forsythe JS. Specific control of cell–material interactions: Targeting cell receptors using ligand-functionalized polymer substrates. Prog Polym Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2013.11.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Shao Y, Fu J. Integrated micro/nanoengineered functional biomaterials for cell mechanics and mechanobiology: a materials perspective. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2014; 26:1494-533. [PMID: 24339188 PMCID: PMC4076293 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201304431] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2013] [Revised: 10/11/2013] [Indexed: 04/14/2023]
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The rapid development of micro/nanoengineered functional biomaterials in the last two decades has empowered materials scientists and bioengineers to precisely control different aspects of the in vitro cell microenvironment. Following a philosophy of reductionism, many studies using synthetic functional biomaterials have revealed instructive roles of individual extracellular biophysical and biochemical cues in regulating cellular behaviors. Development of integrated micro/nanoengineered functional biomaterials to study complex and emergent biological phenomena has also thrived rapidly in recent years, revealing adaptive and integrated cellular behaviors closely relevant to human physiological and pathological conditions. Working at the interface between materials science and engineering, biology, and medicine, we are now at the beginning of a great exploration using micro/nanoengineered functional biomaterials for both fundamental biology study and clinical and biomedical applications such as regenerative medicine and drug screening. In this review, an overview of state of the art micro/nanoengineered functional biomaterials that can control precisely individual aspects of cell-microenvironment interactions is presented and they are highlighted them as well-controlled platforms for mechanistic studies of mechano-sensitive and -responsive cellular behaviors and integrative biology research. The recent exciting trend where micro/nanoengineered biomaterials are integrated into miniaturized biological and biomimetic systems for dynamic multiparametric microenvironmental control of emergent and integrated cellular behaviors is also discussed. The impact of integrated micro/nanoengineered functional biomaterials for future in vitro studies of regenerative medicine, cell biology, as well as human development and disease models are discussed.
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- Yue Shao
- Integrated Biosystems and Biomechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 (USA)
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- Integrated Biosystems and Biomechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 (USA). Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109 (USA)
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RGD-Functionalization of Poly(2-oxazoline)-Based Networks for Enhanced Adhesion to Cancer Cells. Polymers (Basel) 2014. [DOI: 10.3390/polym6020264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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- Jenny Malmström
- Polymer Electronics Research Centre; School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland 1142 New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology; Victoria University of Wellington; P.O. Box 600 Wellington 6140 New Zealand
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- Polymer Electronics Research Centre; School of Chemical Sciences; University of Auckland; Auckland 1142 New Zealand
- MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology; Victoria University of Wellington; P.O. Box 600 Wellington 6140 New Zealand
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Raic A, Rödling L, Kalbacher H, Lee-Thedieck C. Biomimetic macroporous PEG hydrogels as 3D scaffolds for the multiplication of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Biomaterials 2014; 35:929-40. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.10.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2013] [Accepted: 10/12/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Rödling L, Raic A, Lee-Thedieck C. Fabrication of biofunctionalized, cell-laden macroporous 3D PEG hydrogels as bone marrow analogs for the cultivation of human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. Methods Mol Biol 2014; 1202:121-130. [PMID: 24875249 DOI: 10.1007/7651_2014_84] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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In vitro proliferation of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is yet an unresolved challenge. Found in the bone marrow, HSCs can undergo self-renewing cell division and thereby multiply. Recapitulation of the bone marrow environment in order to provide the required signals for their expansion is a promising approach.Here, we describe a technique to produce biofunctionalized, macroporous poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate (PEGDA) hydrogels that mimic the spongy 3D architecture of trabecular bones, which host the red, blood-forming bone marrow. After seeding these scaffolds with cells, they can be used as simplified bone marrow analogs for the cultivation of HSCs. This method can easily be conducted with standard laboratory chemicals and equipment. The 3D hydrogels are produced via salt leaching and biofunctionalization of the material is achieved by co-polymerizing the PEGDA with an RGD peptide. Finally, cell seeding and retrieval are described.
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- Lisa Rödling
- Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Karlsruhe, 76344, Germany
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Platzman I, Gadomska KM, Janiesch JW, Louban I, Cavalcanti-Adam EA, Spatz JP. Soft/Elastic Nanopatterned Biointerfaces in the Service of Cell Biology. Methods Cell Biol 2014; 119:237-60. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-416742-1.00012-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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Missirlis D, Spatz JP. Combined effects of PEG hydrogel elasticity and cell-adhesive coating on fibroblast adhesion and persistent migration. Biomacromolecules 2013; 15:195-205. [PMID: 24274760 DOI: 10.1021/bm4014827] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The development and use of synthetic, cross-linked, macromolecular substrates with tunable elasticity has been instrumental in revealing the mechanisms by which cells sense and respond to their mechanical microenvironment. We here describe a hydrogel based on radical-free, cross-linked poly(ethylene glycol) to study the effects of both substrate elasticity and type of adhesive coating on fibroblast adhesion and migration. Hydrogel elasticity was controlled through the structure and concentration of branched precursors, which efficiently react via Michael-type addition to produce the polymer network. We found that cell spreading and focal adhesion characteristics are dependent on elasticity for all types of coatings (RGD peptide, fibronectin, vitronectin), albeit with significant differences in magnitude. Importantly, fibroblasts migrated slower but more persistently on stiffer hydrogels, with the effects being more pronounced on fibronectin-coated substrates. Therefore, our results validate the hydrogels presented in this study as suitable for future mechanosensing studies and indicate that cell adhesion, polarity, and associated migration persistence are tuned by substrate elasticity and biochemical properties.
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- Dimitris Missirlis
- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems , Heisenbergstr. 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Hagel V, Haraszti T, Boehm H. Diffusion and interaction in PEG-DA hydrogels. Biointerphases 2013; 8:36. [DOI: 10.1186/1559-4106-8-36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2013] [Accepted: 11/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Matic J, Deeg J, Scheffold A, Goldstein I, Spatz JP. Fine tuning and efficient T cell activation with stimulatory aCD3 nanoarrays. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:5090-7. [PMID: 24111628 PMCID: PMC3834297 DOI: 10.1021/nl4022623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/20/2013] [Revised: 10/03/2013] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Anti-CD3 (aCD3) nanoarrays fabricated by self-assembled nanopatterning combined with site-directed protein immobilization techniques represent a novel T cell stimulatory platform that allows tight control over ligand orientation and surface density. Here, we show that activation of primary human CD4+ T cells, defined by CD69 upregulation, IL-2 production and cell proliferation, correlates with aCD3 density on nanoarrays. Immobilization of aCD3 through nanopatterning had two effects: cell activation was significantly higher on these surfaces than on aCD3-coated plastics and allowed unprecedented fine-tuning of T cell response.
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- Jovana Matic
- Department
of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck
Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
- Department
of Biophysical Chemistry, University of
Heidelberg, INF 253, Germany
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- Department
of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck
Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
- Department
of Biophysical Chemistry, University of
Heidelberg, INF 253, Germany
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- Department
of Cellular Immunology, Clinics for Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- German
Rheumatism Research Centre (DRFZ) Berlin, Leibniz Association, Berlin, Germany
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- Immunology
Core Laboratory, Sheba Cancer Research Center, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel
Hashomer 52621, Israel
- Sackler
Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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- Department
of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck
Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
- Department
of Biophysical Chemistry, University of
Heidelberg, INF 253, Germany
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Lee J, Abdeen AA, Zhang D, Kilian KA. Directing stem cell fate on hydrogel substrates by controlling cell geometry, matrix mechanics and adhesion ligand composition. Biomaterials 2013; 34:8140-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.07.074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 219] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2013] [Accepted: 07/21/2013] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Trappmann B, Chen CS. How cells sense extracellular matrix stiffness: a material's perspective. Curr Opin Biotechnol 2013; 24:948-53. [PMID: 23611564 PMCID: PMC4037408 DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.03.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 127] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2013] [Revised: 03/19/2013] [Accepted: 03/24/2013] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The mechanical properties of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in which cells reside have emerged as an important regulator of cell fate. While materials based on natural ECM have been used to implicate the role of substrate stiffness for cell fate decisions, it is difficult in these matrices to isolate mechanics from other structural parameters. In contrast, fully synthetic hydrogels offer independent control over physical and adhesive properties. New synthetic materials that also recreate the fibrous structural hierarchy of natural matrices are now being designed to study substrate mechanics in more complex ECMs. This perspective examines the ways in which new materials are being used to advance our understanding of how ECM stiffness impacts cell function.
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- Britta Trappmann
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104, USA
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Platzman I, Muth CA, Lee-Thedieck C, Pallarola D, Atanasova R, Louban I, Altrock E, Spatz JP. Surface Properties of Nanostructured Bio-Active Interfaces: Impacts of Surface Stiffness and Topography on Cell-Surface Interactions. RSC Adv 2013; 3:13293-13303. [PMID: 33791090 PMCID: PMC8009309 DOI: 10.1039/c3ra41579a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Due to their ability to confer key functions of the native extracellular matrix (ECM) poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-based and PEG-modified materials have been extensively used as biocompatible and biofunctionalized substrate systems to study the influence of environmental parameters on cell adhesion in vitro. Given wide-ranging recent evidence that ECM compliance influences a variety of cell functions, the detailed determination and characterization of the specific PEG surface characteristics including topography, stiffness and chemistry is required. Here, we studied two frequently used bio-active interfaces - PEG-based and PEG-modified surfaces - to elucidate the differences between the physical surface properties, which cells can sense and respond to. For this purpose, two sets of surfaces were synthesized: the first set consisted of nanopatterned glass surfaces containing cRGD-functionalized gold nanoparticles surrounded by a passivated PEG-silane layer and the second set consisted of PEG-diacrylate (PEG-DA) hydrogels decorated with cRGD-functionalized gold nanoparticlesAlthough the two sets of nanostructured materials compared here were highly similar in terms of density and geometrical distribution of the presented bio-ligands as well as in terms of mechanical bulk properties, the topography and mechanical properties of the surfaces were found to be substantially different and are described in detail. In comparison to very stiff and ultrasmooth surface properties of the PEG-passivated glasses, the mechanical properties of PEG-DA surfaces in the biologically relevant stiffness range, together with the increased surface roughness at micro- and nanoscale levels have the potential to affect cell behavior. This potential was verified by studying the adhesive behavior of hematopoietic KG-1a and rat embryonic fibroblast (REF52) cells on both surfaces.
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- Ilia Platzman
- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Functional Interfaces, Hermann-von Helmholtz-Platz 1, 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Heisenbergstr. 3, Stuttgart 70569, Germany & Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 69120, Germany
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Differential regulation of stiffness, topography, and dimension of substrates in rat mesenchymal stem cells. Biomaterials 2013; 34:7616-25. [PMID: 23863454 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.06.059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2013] [Accepted: 06/26/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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The physiological microenvironment of the stem cell niche, including the three factors of stiffness, topography, and dimension, is crucial to stem cell proliferation and differentiation. Although a growing body of evidence is present to elucidate the importance of these factors individually, the interaction of the biophysical parameters of the factors remains insufficiently characterized, particularly for stem cells. To address this issue fully, we applied a micro-fabricated polyacrylamide hydrogel substrate with two elasticities, two topographies, and three dimensions to systematically test proliferation, morphology and spreading, differentiation, and cytoskeletal re-organization of rat bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (rBMSCs) on twelve cases. An isolated but not combinatory impact of the factors was found regarding the specific functions. Substrate stiffness or dimension is predominant in regulating cell proliferation by fostering cell growth on stiff, unevenly dimensioned substrate. Topography is a key factor for manipulating cell morphology and spreading via the formation of a large spherical shape in a pillar substrate but not in a grooved substrate. Although stiffness leads to osteogenic or neuronal differentiation of rBMSCs on a stiff or soft substrate, respectively, topography or dimension also plays a lesser role in directing cell differentiation. Neither an isolated effect nor a combinatory effect was found for actin or tubulin expression, whereas a seemingly combinatory effect of topography and dimension was found in manipulating vimentin expression. These results further the understandings of stem cell proliferation, morphology, and differentiation in a physiologically mimicking microenvironment.
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Pi F, Dillard P, Limozin L, Charrier A, Sengupta K. Nanometric protein-patch arrays on glass and polydimethylsiloxane for cell adhesion studies. NANO LETTERS 2013; 13:3372-8. [PMID: 23808889 DOI: 10.1021/nl401696m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
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We present a simple cost-effective benchtop protocol to functionalize glass and polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) with nanometric protein patches for cell adhesion studies. Evaporation masks, covering macroscopic areas on glass, were made using improved strategies for self-assembly of colloidal microbeads which then served as templates for creating the protein patch arrays via the intermediate steps of organo-aminosilane deposition and polyethylene-glycol grafting. The diameter of the patches could be varied down to about 80 nm. The glass substrates were used for advanced optical imaging of T-lymphocytes to explore adhesion by reflection interference contrast microscopy and the possible colocalization of T-cell receptor microclusters and the activating protein patches by total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy. The selectively functionalized glass could also serve as template for transferring the protein nanopatches to the surface of a soft elastomer. We demonstrated successful reverse contact printing onto the surface of thin layers of PDMS with stiffness ranging from 30 KPa to 3 MPa.
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- Fuwei Pi
- Aix-Marseille Université , CNRS, CINaM UMR 7325, 13288 Marseille, France
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Muth CA, Steinl C, Klein G, Lee-Thedieck C. Regulation of hematopoietic stem cell behavior by the nanostructured presentation of extracellular matrix components. PLoS One 2013; 8:e54778. [PMID: 23405094 PMCID: PMC3566109 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054778] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/19/2012] [Accepted: 12/18/2012] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are maintained in stem cell niches, which regulate stem cell fate. Extracellular matrix (ECM) molecules, which are an essential part of these niches, can actively modulate cell functions. However, only little is known on the impact of ECM ligands on HSCs in a biomimetic environment defined on the nanometer-scale level. Here, we show that human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) adhesion depends on the type of ligand, i.e., the type of ECM molecule, and the lateral, nanometer-scaled distance between the ligands (while the ligand type influenced the dependency on the latter). For small fibronectin (FN)-derived peptide ligands such as RGD and LDV the critical adhesive interligand distance for HSPCs was below 45 nm. FN-derived (FN type III 7-10) and osteopontin-derived protein domains also supported cell adhesion at greater distances. We found that the expression of the ECM protein thrombospondin-2 (THBS2) in HSPCs depends on the presence of the ligand type and its nanostructured presentation. Functionally, THBS2 proved to mediate adhesion of HSPCs. In conclusion, the present study shows that HSPCs are sensitive to the nanostructure of their microenvironment and that they are able to actively modulate their environment by secreting ECM factors.
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- Christine Anna Muth
- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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- Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, Center for Medical Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Section for Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, Center for Medical Research, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
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- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart, Germany
- Department of Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Institute of Functional Interfaces, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany
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Wang X, Yan C, Ye K, He Y, Li Z, Ding J. Effect of RGD nanospacing on differentiation of stem cells. Biomaterials 2013; 34:2865-74. [PMID: 23357372 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2013.01.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 137] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/05/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Nanopatterns of a cell-adhesive peptide arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) on a persistently non-fouling poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogel were prepared, and behaviours of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on patterns of five RGD nanospacings from 37 to 124 nm were examined under a full level of serum for eight days. Besides cell adhesion, osteogenic and adipogenic inductions of MSCs from rat bone marrow were observed in corresponding media. We not only confirmed the nanospacing dependence of cell spreading previously reported in other cell types (non-stem cells) such as less spreading in the case of nanospacings larger than the critical 70 nm, but also found the effect of RGD nanospacing on lineage commitments of stem cells. Both osteogenic and adipogenic inductions resulted in higher differentiation extents on patterns of large nanospacings than of small nanospacings. Under co-induction in the mixed osteogenic/adipogenic media, osteogenesis was predominant over adipogenesis on patterns of large RGD nanospacings, although a less cell spreading itself was beneficial not for osteogenesis but for adipogenesis according to previous studies without nanopatterns. The effect of RGD nanospacing on lineage commitments of stem cells is unexpected and cannot be interpreted via the cell spreading effect. Thus, the differentiation of stem cells might be regulated inherently by nanospacing of bioactive ligands on the material surfaces.
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- Xuan Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Advanced Materials Laboratory, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Effects of aspect ratios of stem cells on lineage commitments with and without induction media. Biomaterials 2012; 34:930-9. [PMID: 23140997 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.10.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2012] [Accepted: 10/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The present study is aimed to examine the shape effect on lineage commitment of stem cells in growth medium free of external chemical induction factors. Aspect ratios (ARs) of cells were controlled by micropatterns with cell-adhesive microislands of AR 1, 2 and 8 on the potent nonfouling background of poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels, and the single stem cells were well shaped for 19 days. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from rat bone marrow were cultured in osteogenic medium, adipogenic medium, mixed coinduction medium, and also growth medium; alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and oil droplets were employed as indicators of osteoblasts and adipocytes, respectively. Those indicators were well observed in all of three induction media as early as day 7, and also in growth medium at a longer culture time till day 13. While a significant monotonic decrease of adipogenesis was observed with the increase of AR, a non-monotonic change of osteogenesis was found with optimal AR about 2. The relative gene expressions further verified the above findings. As a result, cell shape itself is an inherent cue to regulate stem cell differentiation, let alone with or without external chemical induction factors. Such a shape effect disappeared upon addition of a microfilament inhibitor cytochalasin D or a Rho-associated protein kinase (ROCK) inhibitor Y-27632. So, formation of cytoskeleton is necessary for the shape effect, and the ROCK-pathway-related cell tension is responsible for the shape effect on the lineage commitment of stem cells even in growth medium.
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Schricker SR, Palacio MLB, Bhushan B. Designing nanostructured block copolymer surfaces to control protein adhesion. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2012; 370:2348-2380. [PMID: 22509062 PMCID: PMC7398454 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0484] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The profile and conformation of proteins that are adsorbed onto a polymeric biomaterial surface have a profound effect on its in vivo performance. Cells and tissue recognize the protein layer rather than directly interact with the surface. The chemistry and morphology of a polymer surface will govern the protein behaviour. So, by controlling the polymer surface, the biocompatibility can be regulated. Nanoscale surface features are known to affect the protein behaviour, and in this overview the nanostructure of self-assembled block copolymers will be harnessed to control protein behaviour. The nanostructure of a block copolymer can be controlled by manipulating the chemistry and arrangement of the blocks. Random, A-B and A-B-A block copolymers composed of methyl methacrylate copolymerized with either acrylic acid or 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate will be explored. Using atomic force microscopy (AFM), the surface morphology of these block copolymers will be characterized. Further, AFM tips functionalized with proteins will measure the adhesion of that particular protein to polymer surfaces. In this manner, the influence of block copolymer morphology on protein adhesion can be measured. AFM tips functionalized with antibodies to fibronectin will determine how the surfaces will affect the conformation of fibronectin, an important parameter in evaluating surface biocompatibility.
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- Scott R Schricker
- Restorative and Prosthetic Dentistry Section, College of Dentistry, Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, USA.
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Trappmann B, Gautrot JE, Connelly JT, Strange DGT, Li Y, Oyen ML, Cohen Stuart MA, Boehm H, Li B, Vogel V, Spatz JP, Watt FM, Huck WTS. Extracellular-matrix tethering regulates stem-cell fate. NATURE MATERIALS 2012; 11:642-9. [PMID: 22635042 DOI: 10.1038/nmat3339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1093] [Impact Index Per Article: 91.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2011] [Accepted: 04/20/2012] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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To investigate how substrate properties influence stem-cell fate, we cultured single human epidermal stem cells on polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and polyacrylamide (PAAm) hydrogel surfaces, 0.1 kPa-2.3 MPa in stiffness, with a covalently attached collagen coating. Cell spreading and differentiation were unaffected by polydimethylsiloxane stiffness. However, cells on polyacrylamide of low elastic modulus (0.5 kPa) could not form stable focal adhesions and differentiated as a result of decreased activation of the extracellular-signal-related kinase (ERK)/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signalling pathway. The differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells was also unaffected by PDMS stiffness but regulated by the elastic modulus of PAAm. Dextran penetration measurements indicated that polyacrylamide substrates of low elastic modulus were more porous than stiff substrates, suggesting that the collagen anchoring points would be further apart. We then changed collagen crosslink concentration and used hydrogel-nanoparticle substrates to vary anchoring distance at constant substrate stiffness. Lower collagen anchoring density resulted in increased differentiation. We conclude that stem cells exert a mechanical force on collagen fibres and gauge the feedback to make cell-fate decisions.
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- Britta Trappmann
- Melville Laboratory for Polymer Synthesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
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Berthiaume F, Maguire TJ, Yarmush ML. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine: history, progress, and challenges. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng 2012; 2:403-30. [PMID: 22432625 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-061010-114257] [Citation(s) in RCA: 362] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The past three decades have seen the emergence of an endeavor called tissue engineering and regenerative medicine in which scientists, engineers, and physicians apply tools from a variety of fields to construct biological substitutes that can mimic tissues for diagnostic and research purposes and can replace (or help regenerate) diseased and injured tissues. A significant portion of this effort has been translated to actual therapies, especially in the areas of skin replacement and, to a lesser extent, cartilage repair. A good amount of thoughtful work has also yielded prototypes of other tissue substitutes such as nerve conduits, blood vessels, liver, and even heart. Forward movement to clinical product, however, has been slow. Another offshoot of these efforts has been the incorporation of some new exciting technologies (e.g., microfabrication, 3D printing) that may enable future breakthroughs. In this review we highlight the modest beginnings of the field and then describe three application examples that are in various stages of development, ranging from relatively mature (skin) to ongoing proof-of-concept (cartilage) to early stage (liver). We then discuss some of the major issues that limit the development of complex tissues, some of which are fundamentals-based, whereas others stem from the needs of the end users.
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- François Berthiaume
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
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Kruss S, Srot V, van Aken PA, Spatz JP. Au-Ag hybrid nanoparticle patterns of tunable size and density on glass and polymeric supports. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:1562-8. [PMID: 22168477 DOI: 10.1021/la204395d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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This paper describes a method to pattern surfaces with Au-Ag hybrid nanoparticles. We used block copolymer micelle lithography of Au nanoparticles and electroless deposition of Ag. The combination of these two methods enables independent tuning of nanoparticle spacing and Ag-shell size. For this purpose, 8 nm large patterned Au nanoparticle seeds served as nuclei for the electroless deposition of silver that is based on a modified Tollens process with glucose. By adjusting the reaction conditions, specific growth of Ag on top of the Au seeds has been accomplished and analyzed by SEM, HRTEM, XEDS, and UV-vis spectroscopy. We could show that this versatile and green method is feasible on glass as well as on biomedical-relevant polymers like poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels and amorphous Teflon. In conclusion, this method provides a new route to pattern glass and polymeric surfaces with Au-Ag hybrid nanoparticles. It will have many uses in applications such as surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) or antimicrobial coatings for which hybrid nanoparticle density, size, and morphology are important.
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- Sebastian Kruss
- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Heisenbergstr. 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany.
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Lee-Thedieck C, Rauch N, Fiammengo R, Klein G, Spatz JP. Impact of substrate elasticity on human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell adhesion and motility. J Cell Sci 2012; 125:3765-75. [DOI: 10.1242/jcs.095596] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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In the bone marrow, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) reside in endosteal and vascular niches. The interactions with the niches are essential for the maintenance of HSC number and properties. Although the molecular nature of these interactions is quite well understood, little is known about the role of physical parameters such as matrix elasticity. Osteoblasts, the major cellular component of the endosteal HSC niche, flatten during HSC mobilization. We show that this process is accompanied by osteoblast stiffening, demonstrating that not only biochemical signals but also mechanical properties of the niche are modulated. HSCs react to stiffer substrates with increased cell adhesion and migration, which could facilitate the exit of HSCs from the niche. These results indicate that matrix elasticity is an important factor in regulating the retention of HSCs in the endosteal niche and should be considered in attempts to propagate HSCs in vitro for clinical applications.
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Perschmann N, Hellmann JK, Frischknecht F, Spatz JP. Induction of malaria parasite migration by synthetically tunable microenvironments. NANO LETTERS 2011; 11:4468-4474. [PMID: 21910423 DOI: 10.1021/nl202788r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Interaction of Plasmodium sporozoites, the forms of the malaria parasite transmitted by the mosquito, with its microenvironment in form of adhesion and migration is essential for the successful establishment of infection. Myosin-based sporozoite migration relies on short and dynamic actin filaments. These are linked to transmembrane receptors, which in turn bind to the matrix microenvironment. In this work, we are able to define the characteristics that determine whether a matrix is favorable or adverse to sporozoite adhesion and motility using a specifically tunable hydrogel system decorated with gold nanostructures of defined interparticle spacing each equipped with molecules acting as receptor adhesion sites. We show that sporozoites migrate most efficiently on substrates with adhesion sites spaced between 55 and 100 nm apart. Sporozoites migrating on such substrates are more resilient toward disruption of the actin cytoskeleton than parasites moving on substrates with smaller and larger interparticle spacings. Plasmodium sporozoites adhesion and migration was also more efficient on stiff, bonelike interfaces than on soft, skinlike ones. Furthermore, in the absence of serum albumin, previously thought to be essential for motility, sporozoite movement was comparable on substrates functionalized with RGD- and RGE-peptides. This suggests that adhesion formation is sufficient for activating migration, and that modulation of adhesion formation and turnover during migration is efficiently controlled by the material parameters of the microenvironment, that is, adhesion site spacing and substrate stiffness. Our results and approaches provide the basis for a precise dissection of the mechanisms underlying Plasmodium sporozoites migration.
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- Nadine Perschmann
- Department of New Materials and Biosystems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Heidelberg, Heisenbergstrasse 3, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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