Journal
ADVANCED BIOLOGY
Volume 5, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adbi.202100388
Keywords
biomaterials; pathways; silk chemistry; sugars; surface functionalization
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- NIH [P41EB027062, R01EB021264, R01NS094218, R01AR070975]
- U.S. Army [W911NF-17-1-0384]
- U.S. Air Force [FA9550-17-1-0333, FA8650-15-D-5405]
- Turkish Fulbright Commission
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Silk biomaterials are crucial in biomedical applications due to their exceptional properties and bio-compatibility. Chemical functionalization of silk can enhance and tune its features, expanding its potential applications. Conjugation of glucosamine onto silk through various pathways allows for control over material properties and the development of multifunctional biomaterials.
Silk biomaterials are important for applications in biomedical fields due to their outstanding mechanical properties, biocompatibility, and tunable biodegradation. Chemical functionalization of silk by various chemistries can be leveraged to enhance and tune these features and enable the expansion of silk-based biomaterials into additional fields. Sugars are particularly relevant for intracellular communication, signal transduction events, as well as in hydrated extracellular matrices such as in cartilage, vitreous, and brain tissues. Multiple reaction pathways are demonstrated (carboxylation of serines followed by carbodiimide coupling with glucosamine, carboxylation of tyrosines followed by carbodiimide coupling with glucosamine; direct carbodiimide coupling of the inherent carboxylic acids of silk (aspartic and glutamic acid) with glucosamine) for the covalent conjugation of glucosamine onto silk with characterization by proton nuclear magnetic resonance (H-1-NMR), liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy (LC-MS), water contact angle (WCA), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The results indicate that different pathways substitute different amounts of glucosamine onto silk chains, with control over resulting material properties, including hydrophobicity/hydrophilicity and biological responses. The aqueous processability of these conjugates into functional material formats (films, sponges) is assessed. These new classes of bio-inspired materials can lead to multifunctional biomaterials for potential applications in different fields of biomedical engineering.
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