Journal
COLLOIDS AND SURFACES B-BIOINTERFACES
Volume 79, Issue 2, Pages 452-459Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2010.05.011
Keywords
PVP-b-PS; ATRP; Regulation; Protein adsorption; Cell adhesion
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20634030, 20974086, 20974122, 20920102035]
- Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars, State Education Ministry
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Poly(vinylpyrrolidone-b-styrene) (PVP-b-PS) diblock copolymers tethered to glass surfaces were prepared, and the effects on protein adsorption and cellular behavior to the glass and the modified glass surfaces investigated. The PVP-b-PS grafting process was confirmed by water contact angle and XPS measurements. The results obtained for the water contact angles suggest that there are two phases that coexist on the PVP-b-PS block copolymer tethered surface, under aqueous conditions. Although the PVP-b-PS surface possessed, to some extent, a protein resistant property, following introduction of the PS segment to the end of tethered PVP, both fibrinogen and lysozyme adsorption were increased significantly. The PVP-b-PS modified surface, based on Western-blot analysis, appeared to have the greatest amount of surface bound vitronectin, however the conformation of the adsorbed vitronectin may have subsequently been affected by the surface tethered copolymer as was suggested by cell culture results. From these results, we proposed that protein adsorption and cell adhesion can be regulated by tuning the chemical compositions of diblock copolymers tethered to surfaces. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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