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Thiolactone-Functional Pullulan for In Situ Forming Biogels

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BIOMACROMOLECULES
卷 22, 期 10, 页码 4262-4273

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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.1c00807

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  1. European Union
  2. Federal state of North RhineWestphalia [EFRE 300088302]

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Functionalized pullulan with thiolactones allows for cross-linking with diamines and/or amine-containing biological substrates, enhancing versatility for cell proliferation. Studies show that gelatin and GRGDS equally support proliferation of normal human dermal fibroblasts, while GRGDS and GHK significantly improve proliferation of hepatocytes. The strategy of producing biogels using biologically active substrates as cross-linkers is confirmed to be mild and biocompatible.
Gelation in the presence of cells with minimum cytotoxicity is highly desirable for materials with applications in tissue engineering. Herein, the naturally occurring polysaccharide pullulan is functionalized with thiolactones that undergo ring-opening addition of amines. As a result, the modified pullulan can be cross-linked with diamines and/or amine-containing biological substrates enhancing the system's versatility (e.g., gelatin and cell-binding ligands GHK/GRGDS). Thiolactone degrees of substitution of 2.5 or 5.0 mol % are achieved, and respective hydrogels exhibit mesh sizes of 27.8 to 49.1 nm. Cell proliferation studies on chosen gels (G' congruent to 500 Pa, over 14 days) demonstrate that for normal human dermal fibroblasts (NHDFs), both gelatin and GRGDS equally support cell proliferation, while in the case of hepatocytes (HepG2), the presence of GRGDS and GHK improve cell proliferation 10-fold compared to gelatin. Cells remain viable and in one instance were successfully encapsulated by in situ gelation, altogether confirming the mild and biocompatible nature of this strategy to produce biogels using biologically active substrates as cross-linkers.

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