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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 87, Issue 8-9, Pages 743-750Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejcb.2008.03.011
Keywords
nanotechnology; nanopattern; peptide gradient; biofunctionalisation; cell adhesion; cell polarisation
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- Landesstiftung Baden-Wurttemberg
- National Institutes of Health [PN2 EY016586]
- Max Planck Society
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In vivo cell migration and location are orchestrally guided by soluble and bound chemical gradients. Here, gradients of extracellular matrix molecules are formed synthetically by the combination Of a Surface nanopatterning technique called block copolymer nanolithography (BCN) and a biofunctionalisation technique. A modified Substrate dip-coating process of BCN allows for the Formation of precise molecular gradients of cyclic RGDfK peptide patches at interfaces, which are presented to cells for testing cell adhesion and polarisation. Surfaces formed by BCN consist of hexagonally ordered gold dot patterns with a gradient in particle spacing. Each dot serves as a chemical anchor for the binding of cyclic RGDfK peptides, which are specifically recognised by alpha(v)beta(3) integrins. Due to steric hindrance Only Lip to one integrin binds to one functionalised gold dot which forms a peptide patch spacing. We demonstrate how cell morphology, adhesion area, actin and vinculin distribution as well as cell body polarisation are influenced by the peptide patch spacing gradient. As a consequence, these gradients of adhesive ligands induce cell orientation towards smaller particle spacing when the gradient strength is 15 nm/mm at least. This implicates that an adherent cell's sensitivity to differentiate between ligand patch spacing is approximately 1 nm across the cell body. (C) 2008 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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