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Coating Bioactive Microcapsules with Tannic Acid Enhances the Phenotype of the Encapsulated Pluripotent Stem Cells

Journal

ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 14, Issue 23, Pages 27274-27286

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c06783

Keywords

microfluidics; heparin-based microcapsules; tannic acid; nanofilm; controlled growth factor release; 3D stem cell cultures

Funding

  1. Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine
  2. J.W. Kieckhefer Foundation
  3. Al Nahyan Foundation
  4. Regenerative Medicine Minnesota [RMM 101617 TR 004]
  5. NIH [DK107255, EB021911]
  6. Mayo Clinic Center for Cel l Signaling in Gastroenterology [P30DK084567]

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Human pluripotent stem cells have great potential for cell therapeutics and disease modeling. Researchers have developed heparin-containing microcapsules that promote stem cell aggregation and can deliver growth factors. They also found that coating the microcapsules with tannic acid can enhance their biological activity and increase pluripotency expression.
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) may be differentiated into any adult cell type and therefore hold incredible promise for cell therapeutics and disease modeling. There is increasing interest in three-dimensional (3D) hPSC culture because of improved differentiation outcomes and potential for scale up. Our team has recently described bioactive heparin (Hep)-containing core-shell microcapsules that promote rapid aggregation of stem cells into spheroids and may also be loaded with growth factors for the local and sustained delivery to the encapsulated cells. In this study, we explored the possibility of further modulating bioactivity of microcapsules through the use of an ultrathin coating composed of tannic acid (TA). Deposition of the TA film onto model substrates functionalized with Hep and poly(ethylene glycol) was characterized by ellipsometry and atomic force microscopy. Furthermore, the presence of the TA coating was observed to increase the amount of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) incorporation by up to twofold and to extend its release from 5 to 7 days. Most significantly, TA-microcapsules loaded with bFGF induced higher levels of pluripotency expression compared to uncoated microcapsules containing bFGF. Engineered microcapsules described here represent a new stem cell culture approach that enables 3D cultivation and relies on local delivery of inductive cues.

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