Transfer of functional thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) coatings for cell sheet fabrication from gold to glass surfaces

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Authors

  • Silke Heinen
  • Simon Rackow
  • Jose Luis Cuellar-Camacho
  • Ievgen S. Donskyi
  • Wolfgang E.S. Unger
  • Marie Weinhart

External Research Organisations

  • Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin)
  • BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1489-1500
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Materials Chemistry B
Volume6
Issue number10
Early online date14 Feb 2018
Publication statusPublished - 14 Mar 2018
Externally publishedYes

Abstract

Thermoresponsive polymer coatings can facilitate cell sheet fabrication under mild conditions by promoting cell adhesion and proliferation at 37 °C. At lower temperatures the detachment of confluent cell sheets is triggered without enzymatic treatment. Thus, confluent cell sheets with intact extracellular matrix for regenerative medicine or tissue engineering applications become available. Herein, we applied the previously identified structural design parameters of functional, thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) brushes on gold to the more application-relevant substrate glass via the self-assembly of a corresponding block copolymer (PGE-AA) with a short surface-reactive, amine-presenting anchor block. Both, physical and covalent immobilization on glass via either multivalent ionic interactions of the anchor block with bare glass or the coupling of the anchor block to a polydopamine (PDA) adhesion layer on glass resulted in stable coatings. Atomic force microscopy revealed a high degree of roughness of covalently attached coatings on the PDA adhesion layer, while physically attached coatings on bare glass were smooth and in the brush-like regime. Cell sheets of primary human dermal fibroblasts detached reliably (86%) and within 20 ± 10 min from physically tethered PGE-AA coatings on glass when prepared under cloud point grafting conditions. The presence of the laterally inhomogeneous PDA adhesion layer, however, hindered the spontaneous temperature-triggered cell detachment from covalently grafted PGE-AA, decreasing both detachment rate and reliability. Despite being only physically attached, self-assembled monolayer brushes of PGE-AA block copolymers on glass are functional and stable thermoresponsive coatings for application in cell sheet fabrication of human fibroblasts as determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

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Transfer of functional thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) coatings for cell sheet fabrication from gold to glass surfaces. / Heinen, Silke; Rackow, Simon; Cuellar-Camacho, Jose Luis et al.
In: Journal of Materials Chemistry B, Vol. 6, No. 10, 14.03.2018, p. 1489-1500.

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Heinen S, Rackow S, Cuellar-Camacho JL, Donskyi IS, Unger WES, Weinhart M. Transfer of functional thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) coatings for cell sheet fabrication from gold to glass surfaces. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2018 Mar 14;6(10):1489-1500. Epub 2018 Feb 14. doi: 10.1039/c7tb03263c
Heinen, Silke ; Rackow, Simon ; Cuellar-Camacho, Jose Luis et al. / Transfer of functional thermoresponsive poly(glycidyl ether) coatings for cell sheet fabrication from gold to glass surfaces. In: Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 2018 ; Vol. 6, No. 10. pp. 1489-1500.
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