Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 100A, Issue 7, Pages 1647-1654Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.34107
Keywords
photodegradable; microspheres; drug delivery; spatiotemporal control; cell culture
Funding
- National Science Foundation [DMR 1006711D]
- National Institutes of Health [T32 GM-065103]
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, HHMI UROP (UC-Boulder)
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Materials Research [1006711] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this study, the authors present a photodegradable microparticle system that can be used to entrap and deliver bioactive proteins to cells during culture. By using a photosensitive delivery system, experimenters can achieve a wide variety of spatiotemporally regulated release profiles with a single microparticle formulation, thereby, enabling one to probe many questions as to how protein presentation can be manipulated to regulate cell function. Photodegradable microparticles were synthesized via inverse suspension polymerization with a mean diameter of 22 mu m, and degradation was demonstrated upon exposure to several irradiation conditions. The protein-loaded depots were incorporated into cell cultures and release of bioactive protein was quantified during the photodegradation process. This phototriggered release allowed for the delivery of TGF-beta 1 to stimulate PE25 cells and for the delivery of fluorescently labeled Annexin V to assay apoptotic 3T3 fibroblasts during culture. By incorporating these photoresponsive protein delivery depots into cell culture, new types of experiments are now possible to test hypotheses about how individual or multiple soluble factors might affect cell function when presented in a uniform, temporally varying, or gradient manner. (C) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res Part A: 2012.
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