ECM protein nanofibers and nanostructures engineered using surface-initiated assembly

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 86, 2014, Pages

  Szymanski, John M ^a   Jallerat, Quentin ^a   Feinberg, Adam W ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioengineering; Extracellular matrix proteins; Fibronectin; Issue 86; Laminin; Microcontact printing; Nanofabrics; Nanofibers; Poly(N isopropylacrylamide); Surface initiated assembly; Tissue engineering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940282203     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/51176     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Geiger, B., Bershadsky, A., Pankov, R., & Yamada, K. M. Transmembrane crosstalk between the extracellular matrix and the cytoskeleton. Nat Rev Mol Cell Biol. 2, 793-805 (2001).
2. Engler, A. J., Sen, S., Sweeney, H. L., & Discher, D. E. Matrix Elasticity Directs Stem Cell Lineage Specification. Cell. 126, 677-689 (2006).
3. Discher, D. E., Janmey, P., & Wang, Y.-l. Tissue Cells Feel and Respond to the Stiffness of Their Substrate. Science. 310, 1139-1143, doi:10.1126/science.1116995 (2005).
4. Ott, H. C. et al. Perfusion-decellularized matrix: using nature's platform to engineer a bioartificial heart. Nat Med. 14, 213-221, doi:10.1038/nm1684nm1684 [pii] (2008).
5. Teo, W. E., & Ramakrishna, S. A review on electrospinning design and nanofibre assemblies. Nanotechnology. 17, R89 (2006).
6. Reneker, D. H., & Chun, I. Nanometre diameter fibres of polymer, produced by electrospinning. Nanotechnology. 7, 216 (1996).
7. Ma, P. X., & Zhang, R. Synthetic nano-scale fibrous extracellular matrix. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 46, 60-72, doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-4636(199907)46:1<60::aid-jbm7>3.0.co;2-h (1999).
8. Yoshimoto, H., Shin, Y. M., Terai, H., & Vacanti, J. P. A biodegradable nanofiber scaffold by electrospinning and its potential for bone tissue engineering. Biomaterials. 24, 2077-2082, doi:10.1016/s0142-9612(02)00635-x (2003).
9. Li, W. J., Laurencin, C. T., Caterson, E. J., Tuan, R. S., & Ko, F. K. Electrospun nanofibrous structure: a novel scaffold for tissue engineering. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 60, 613-621 (2002).
10. Matthews, J. A., Wnek, G. E., Simpson, D. G., & Bowlin, G. L. Electrospinning of Collagen Nanofibers. Biomacromolecules. 3, 232-238, doi:10.1021/bm015533u (2002).
11. Huang, Z.-M., Zhang, Y. Z., Ramakrishna, S., & Lim, C. T. Electrospinning and mechanical characterization of gelatin nanofibers. Polymer. 45, 5361-5368, doi:10.1016/j.polymer.2004.04.005 (2004).
12. Wnek, G. E., Carr, M. E., Simpson, D. G., & Bowlin, G. L. Electrospinning of Nanofiber Fibrinogen Structures. Nano Letters. 3, 213-216, doi:10.1021/nl025866c (2002).
13. Bhattarai, N., Edmondson, D., Veiseh, O., Matsen, F. A., & Zhang, M. Electrospun chitosan-based nanofibers and their cellular compatibility. Biomaterials. 26, 6176-6184, doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2005.03.027 (2005).
14. Jin, H.-J., Chen, J., Karageorgiou, V., Altman, G. H., & Kaplan, D. L. Human bone marrow stromal cell responses on electrospun silk fibroin mats. Biomaterials. 25, 1039-1047, doi:10.1016/S0142-9612(03)00609-4 (2004).
15. Wierzbicka-Patynowski, I., Schwarzbauer, J.E. The ins and outs of fibronectin matrix assembly. Journal of Cell Science. 116, 3269-3276, doi:10.1242/jcs.00670 (2003).
16. Mosher, D. F., & Johnson, R. B. In vitro formation of disulfide-bonded fibronectin multimers. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 258, 6595-6601 (1983).
17. Little, W. C., Smith, M. L., Ebneter, U., & Vogel, V. Assay to mechanically tune and optically probe fibrillar fibronectin conformations from fully relaxed to breakage. Matrix Biology. 27, 451-461, doi:10.1016/j.matbio.2008.02.003 (2008).
18. Ulmer, J., Geiger, B., & Spatz, J. P. Force-induced fibronectin fibrillogenesis in vitro. Soft Matter. 4, 1998-2007 (2008).
19. Klotzsch, E. et al. Fibronectin forms the most extensible biological fibers displaying switchable force-exposed cryptic binding sites. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. doi:10.1073/pnas.0907518106 (2009).
20. Feinberg, A. W., & Parker, K. K. Surface-Initiated Assembly of Protein Nanofabrics. Nano Letters. 10, 2184-2191 (2010).
21. Deravi, L. F. et al. Differential Contributions of Conformation Extension and Domain Unfolding to Properties of Fibronectin Nanotextiles. Nano Letters. 12, 5587-5592, doi:10.1021/nl302643g (2012).
22. Shen, K., Qi, J., & Kam, L. C. Microcontact Printing of Proteins for Cell Biology. J Vis Exp. e1065, doi:10.3791/1065 (2008).
23. Vogel, V. Mechanotransduction Involving Multimodular Proteins: Converting Force into Biochemical Signals. Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure. 35, 459-488, doi:10.1146/annurev.biophys.35.040405.102013 (2006).