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ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
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AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c10583
关键词
nuclear deformation; nanotopography; mechanosensing; cell-nanoneedle interfacing; human neural stem cells
资金
- Monash Graduate Excellence Scholarship
Cell nuclear size and shape are regulated and abnormalities can lead to disease. Silicon nanoneedle arrays can modify cell's external environment to study mechanotransduction and intracellular signaling. Our study shows that cell responses to these arrays resemble three-dimensional environments and significantly impact nuclear shape.
Cell nuclear size and shape are strictly regulated, with aberrations often leading to or being indicative of disease. Nuclear mechanics are critically responsible for intracellular responses to extracellular cues, such as the nanotopography of the external environment. Silicon nanoneedle (SiNN) arrays are tunable, engineered cell culture substrates that permit precise, nanoscale modifications to a cell's external environment to probe mechanotransduction and intracellular signaling. We use a library of four different SiNN arrays to investigate the immediate and downstream effects of controlled geometries of nanotopographical cues on the nuclear integrity/dynamics of human immortalized somatic and renewing stem cell types. We quantify the significant, albeit different, nuclear shape changes that both cell types undergo, which suggest that cellular responses to SiNN arrays are more comparable to three-dimensional (3D) environments than traditional flat cultureware. We show that nanotopography-induced effects on nuclear envelope integrity, protein localization, and focal adhesion complex formation are cell-dependent. Migration is shown to be dramatically impeded for human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs) on nanotopographies compared to flat substrates but not for somatic cells. Our results indicate an additional layer of complexity in cellular mechanotransduction, which warrants closer attention in the context of engineered substrates and scaffolds for clinical applications.
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