材料表面性质调控细胞黏附

生物医用材料旨在通过调控材料和细胞之间的相互作用来实现组织的再生和修复。黏附过程直接决定了细胞是否能够充分发挥生物学性能,因此通过对材料表面的物理和化学改性来调控细胞黏附,对于生物材料具有至关重要的意义,也是非常活跃的研究热点。材料表面物理改性通常通过对包括表面粗糙度、形貌、模量和多孔结构等物理性质的调控,为细胞构建适合黏附的材料表面。而化学改性则借助于表面电荷及亲疏水性调控、促黏分子修饰等化学手段来提高材料表面与细胞间的相互作用力,进而促进细胞黏附。近年来,材料表面调控细胞黏附的研究取得了许多新的突破性进展。例如在传统的促黏分子表面修饰之外,人们逐步发现对促黏分子序构的精准调控也可以有效地提高材料表面的促黏性能。而刺激响应性表面则可以根据外界信号的刺激,使得材料表面在促黏和抗黏之间实现智能的转换。本文从物理改性、化学修饰、刺激响应性表面构建等角度出发,全面总结和讨论了材料表面性质对细胞黏附的调控作用,梳理了材料表面的设计思路,多种材料表面的修饰改性方法等最新进展,并展望了未来材料表面对细胞黏附的调控思路。     

能够促进细胞黏附的生物活性表面的制备

报道了一种能够促进细胞黏附的生物活性表面的制备方法.首先通过表面引发原子转移自由基聚合方法在硅表面接枝了聚(N-甲基丙烯酰氧基琥珀酰亚胺)(PNMASI)聚合物刷.随着反应时间的增加,接枝层厚度基本呈线性增长,表明聚合反应具有一定的可控性.蛋白质吸附测试表明PNMASI改性后的表面具有高密度固定生物分子的能力.同时,通...     

微纳米图案化表面对细胞行为的影响

在再生医学领域中,材料对细胞生长和组织修复的调节作用一直是极为关键的问题.随着表面图案化技术的发展,在材料表面制备规则、可控、种类多样的图案化区域成为可能,因而该技术被广泛应用于再生医学、组织工程以及细胞诊断等相关学科领域.通过微纳米表面图案化方法,改变材料的化学性质和拓扑结构,从而实现对细胞粘附、迁移、增殖、凋亡、基...     

微流控芯片上的细胞分析研究进展

近年来,微流控分析系统(μTAS)在生物细胞分离领域的发展引起了广泛的关注。微流控芯片的微米级尺寸的通道适合于单细胞样品的引入、操控、反应、分离和检测,已经在微芯片上实现了上述功能,并将这些功能集成在具备毛细管电泳分离功能的微芯片上。     

二维平面细胞微图案化技术及其生物学应用

可以控制细胞粘附形状、大小的方法统称为细胞图案化技术.这些方法结合微纳米制备、表面化学、电化学和光化学等手段可以动态控制细胞的粘附、迁移、分化及其相互作用,为细胞生物学研究提供了一个新平台.本文介绍了二维平面细胞图案化的各种方法,并对其优缺点进行了总结,评述了细胞图案化技术在细胞生物学基础研究、组织工程以及基于细胞的生物传感器领域的应用.     

微流控芯片电泳的研究进展

该文综述了微流控芯片电泳的制备、结构和应用,比较了不同材料微流控芯片电泳的制备机理、表面改性和性能特点,归纳和总结了不同结构微流控芯片电泳的进样、分离和检测系统以及不同类型微流控芯片电泳在荧光物质、金属离子、糖、药物、核酸、DNA、氨基酸、多肽和蛋白质分析中的应用,并对微流控芯片电泳的未来发展方向做了展望.     

成骨细胞在表面酰胺化聚乳酸膜上的黏附和增殖行为

利用紫外光接枝聚合丙烯酰胺(Acrylic amide, AAm)获得表面酰胺化的聚乳酸(PLA)膜, 并考察了成骨细胞在酰胺化表面的黏附和增殖行为. 结果表明, 酰胺基的引入改善了PLA膜的表面亲水性, 其表面水接触角由78°减少到56°, 自由能由42.7 mJ/m²增大到51.4 mJ/m²; 与对照组相比, 成骨细胞在改性表面培养3 d后有大量的丝状伪足伸出, 并且较快地进入了细胞分裂期, 表明PLA膜表面的酰胺化能够促进细胞的黏附和增殖.     

利用Langmuir-Blodgett技术构筑表面微结构的方法

由于表面纳/微结构在微电子和生物学等领域有着广泛的应用前景,其构筑方法引起了人们越来越多的关注。目前已经发展出了多种表面纳/微结构的构筑方法,然而在大面积上构筑表面结构仍然是一个非常重要的研究课题。自组装技术作为一种无模板的构筑方法,在这方面发挥了重要作用。本文着重介绍了近年来利用Langmuir-Blodgett（LB）技术在表面图案化中的应用。文中介绍了纳/微米级条带结构、岛状结构及纳米线状结构的构筑方法,其中条带结构的形成方向可以平行或垂直LB膜的转移方向。这些结构的构筑不仅可以用传统的两亲性分子,还可以用纳米粒子和纳米线等作为构筑材料。同时简单介绍了以LB技术构筑的表面纳/微米级结构在不同领域中的应用。     

软光刻法制备具有表面微结构的角蛋白膜

近年来,使用微纳米制造工艺将蛋白质或多肽进行高精度空间图案化,推动了细胞生物学、组织工程学、药物科学等领域的发展.同时,羊毛角蛋白作为一种储量大的天然生物蛋白质,具有优异的水溶性、良好的生物相容性和可控的降解性,但羊毛角蛋白通常不能自组装形成凝胶网络或其他不溶形式,因此,使用羊毛角蛋白制备如纤维、薄膜、凝胶等的成型结构存在很大困难.本工作通过使用化学修饰的方法,在角蛋白上接枝功能基团,使角蛋白获得光敏感性,探究了共价交联法制备具有表面微结构角蛋白膜的可行性.并用3D激光扫描显微镜、紫外可见近红外光谱仪和傅里叶变换显微红外光谱仪对薄膜结构进行了表征.结果表明,使用软光刻法可以得到表面微结构完整度很高的角蛋白膜.本工作对羊毛角蛋白共价交联法进行了实验探索,实验结果不仅为人们提供了一种软光刻技术制备具有表面微结构的角蛋白膜的方法,而且为羊毛角蛋白制备成型结构提供了新的途径.     

氨气腐蚀法制备黏附性能可控的超疏水铜表面

采用简单便捷的方法制备出了具有不同黏附性能的超疏水表面. 通过控制氨气对金属铜表面的腐蚀时间, 分别制备了具有微米球及微米棒状结构的表面. 利用低表面能氟硅烷(FAS)修饰后, 2种表面均表现出超疏水特性(接触角均大于150°), 然而其黏附性能却截然相反. 具有微球结构的表面呈现出高黏附特性, 而具有微米棒状结构的表面则显示出低黏附特性. 研究发现, 表面不同的微观结构导致了液滴在其表面上分别处于Cassie-impregnating wetting态及Cassie态, 从而呈现出了不同的黏附性能.     

Patterning Surfaces for Controlled Platelet Adhesion and Detection of Dysfunctional Platelets

Platelets play a fundamental role in thrombus formation and in the pathogenesis of arterial thrombosis. Patterning surfaces for controlled platelet adhesion paves the way for adhesion and activation mechanisms in platelets and detection of platelet functional defects. Here, a new and simple method based on controlled polymerization of 2‐methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) on the surface of styrene‐block‐(ethylene‐co‐butylene)‐block‐styrene (SEBS) is shown. The competition between polymerization and degradation enables platelet adhesion on SEBS to be switched on and off. The adhesive sites of the platelets can be down to single cell level, and the dysfunctional platelets can be quantitatively detected.

     

Preparation of Gradient Surfaces by Using a Simple Chemical Reaction and Investigation of Cell Adhesion on a Two‐Component Gradient

This article describes a simple method for the generation of multicomponent gradient surfaces on self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) on gold in a precise and predictable manner, by harnessing a chemical reaction on the monolayer, and their applications. A quinone derivative on a monolayer was converted to an amine through spontaneous intramolecular cyclization following first‐order reaction kinetics. An amine gradient on the surface on a scale of centimeters was realized by modulating the exposure time of the quinone‐presenting monolayer to the chemical reagent. The resulting amine was used as a chemical handle to attach various molecules to the monolayer with formation of multicomponent gradient surfaces. The effectiveness of this strategy was verified by cyclic voltammetry (CV), matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight (MALDI‐TOF) mass spectrometry (MS), MS imaging, and contact‐angle measurements. As a practical application, cell adhesion was investigated on RGD/PHSRN peptide/peptide gradient surfaces. Peptide PHSRN was found to synergistically enhance cell adhesion at the position where these two ligands are presented in equal amounts, while these peptide ligands were competitively involved in cell adhesion at other positions. This strategy of generating a gradient may be further expandable to the development of functional gradient surfaces of various molecules and materials, such as DNA, proteins, growth factors, and nanoparticles, and could therefore be useful in many fields of research and practical applications.     

Cell Adhesion Micropatterning by Plasma Treatment of Alginate Coated Surfaces

Air plasma treatment, coupled to a masking technique, was used to promote micropatterned cell adhesion onto a cell-adhesion-resistant alginate coated surface. L-929 mouse fibroblasts were successfully confined into 50 m diameter cell-adhesive areas patterned inside a cell-resistant layer. The plasma treatment performed, albeit very mild, destroys the molecular architecture of the hydrophilic polysaccharide coating, leading to an enhancement of protein adsorption and hence of cell-adhesion. Both the cell-adhesion-resistant and the cell-adhesive regions are hydrophilic, yet they show a completely different behavior towards cells. Thus, they are a very interesting subject in the study of interfacial interactions in aqueous media, and, in particular, on the mechanisms of bio-adhesion at hydrophilic surfaces.     

Potential‐Responsive Surfaces for Manipulation of Cell Adhesion,Release, and Differentiation

In living systems, interfacial molecular interactions control many biological processes. New stimuli‐responsive strategies are desired to provide versatile model systems that can regulate cell behavior in vitro. Described here are potential‐responsive surfaces that control cell adhesion and release as well as stem cell differentiation. Cell adhesion can be modulated dynamically by applying negative and positive potentials to surfaces functionalized with tailored monolayers. This process alters cell morphology and ultimately controls behavior and the fate of the cells. Cells can be detached from the electrode surface as intact clusters with different geometries using electrochemical potentials. Importantly, morphological changes during adhesion guide stem cell differentiation. The higher accessibility of the peptide under a positive applied potential causes phenotypic changes in the cells that are hallmarks of osteogenesis, whereas lower accessibility of the peptide promoted by negative potentials leads to adipogenesis.     

Mass Spectrometry Assisted Lithography for the Patterning of Cell Adhesion Ligands on Self‐Assembled Monolayers

Pattern of events : A simple and flexible method has been developed for patterning cell adhesion ligands. Locally erasing self‐assembled monolayers with tri(ethyleneglycol) groups on a gold substrate by using a MALDI‐TOF MS nitrogen laser and filling the exposed gold surface with an alkanethiol presenting carboxylic acid groups enables subsequent immobilization of maleimide and a cell adhesion peptide, which can then recognize cells (see scheme).

     

Using Azobenzene‐Embedded Self‐Assembled Monolayers To Photochemically Control Cell Adhesion Reversibly

A celling point : A mixed self‐assembled monolayer comprising two types of alkanethiols—one containing an azobenzene unit terminated with a peptide, the other containing a hexa(ethylene glycol) group that resists nonspecific cell adhesion—enables cell adhesion to be modulated photochemically. The reversible conversion of the azobenzene moiety between E and Z configurations allows the surface to either support or resist cell adhesion.

     

Tailored Poly(2‐oxazoline) Polymer Brushes to Control Protein Adsorption and Cell Adhesion

POx bottle‐brush brushes (BBBs) are synthesized by SIPGP of 2‐isopropenyl‐2‐oxazoline and consecutive LCROP of 2‐oxazolines on 3‐aminopropyltrimethoxysilane‐modified silicon substrates. The side chain hydrophilicity and polarity are varied. The impact of the chemical composition and architecture of the BBB upon protein (fibronectin) adsorption and endothelial cell adhesion are investigated and prove extremely low protein adsorption and cell adhesion on BBBs with hydrophilic side chains such as poly(2‐methyl‐2‐oxazoline) and poly(2‐ethyl‐2‐oxazoline). The influence of the POx side chain terminal function upon adsorption and adhesion is minor but the side chain length has a significant effect on bioadsorption.

     

In Situ Scatheless Cell Detachment Reveals Correlation between Adhesion Strength and Viability at Single‐Cell Resolution

Single‐cell biology provides insights into some of the most fundamental processes in biology and promotes the understanding of life's mysteries. As the technologies to study single‐cells expand, they will require sophisticated analytical tools to make sense of various behaviors and components of single‐cells as well as their relations in the adherent tissue culture. In this paper, we revealed cell heterogeneity and uncovered the connections between cell adhesion strength and cell viability at single‐cell resolution by extracting single adherent cells of interest from a standard tissue culture by using a microfluidic chip‐based live single‐cell extractor (LSCE). We believe that this method will provide a valuable new tool for single‐cell biology.