Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL MATERIALS RESEARCH PART A
Volume 78A, Issue 1, Pages 157-167Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbm.a.30718
Keywords
regenerative medicine; bladder; tissue engineering; supramolecular; self-assembly
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB003806-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE015920-01] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [T32 DK062716-02] Funding Source: Medline
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An important challenge in regenerative medicine is the design of suitable bioactive scaffold materials that can act as artificial extracellular matrices. We reported previously on a family of peptide-amphiphile (PA) molecules that self-assemble into high-aspect ratio nanofibers under physiological conditions, and can display bioactive peptide epitopes along each nanofiber's periphery. One type of PA displays its epitope at a branched site using a lysine dendron, a molecular feature that improves epitope availability on the nanofiber surface. In this work, we describe the application of these branched PA (b-PA) systems as self-assembling coatings for fiber-bonded poly(glycolic acid) scaffolds. b-PAs bearing variations of the RGDS adhesion epitope from fibronectin were shown by elemental analysis to coat repeatably onto fiber scaffolds. The retention of supramolecular organization after coating on the scaffold was demonstrated through spectroscopic identification of P-sheet structures and the close association of hydrophobic tails in a model pyrene-containing PA system. Primary human bladder smooth muscle cells demonstrated greater initial adhesion to b-PA-functionalized scaffolds than to bare scaffolds or to those coated with linear PAs. This strategy of molecular design and coating may have potential application in bladder tissue regeneration. (c) 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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