Regulation of cell attachment, spreading, and migration by hydrogel substrates with independently tunable mesh size

材料科学 细胞迁移 纳米技术 生物物理学 生物医学工程 细胞 化学 复合材料 医学 生物 生物化学
作者
Jing Xia,Zong-Yuan Liu,Zheng-Yuan Han,Yuan Yuan,Yue Shao,Xi‐Qiao Feng,David A. Weitz
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期刊:Acta Biomaterialia [Elsevier]
卷期号:141: 178-189 被引量:26
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DOI:10.1016/j.actbio.2022.01.025
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Hydrogels are widely used as substrates to investigate interactions between cells and their microenvironment as they mimic many attributes of the extracellular matrix. The stiffness of hydrogels is an important property that is known to regulate cell behavior. Beside stiffness, cells also respond to structural cues such as mesh size. However, since the mesh size of hydrogel is intrinsically coupled to its stiffness, its role in regulating cell behavior has never been independently investigated. Here, we report a hydrogel system whose mesh size and stiffness can be independently controlled. Cell behavior, including spreading, migration, and formation of focal adhesions is significantly altered on hydrogels with different mesh sizes but with the same stiffness. At the transcriptional level, hydrogel mesh size affects cellular mechanotransduction by regulating nuclear translocation of yes-associated protein. These findings demonstrate that the mesh size of a hydrogel plays an important role in cell-substrate interactions. STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE: Hydrogels are ideal platforms with which to investigate interactions between cells and their microenvironment as they mimic many physical properties of the extracellular matrix. However, the mesh size of hydrogels is intrinsically coupled to their stiffness, making it challenging to investigate the contribution of mesh size to cell behavior. In this work, we use hydrogel-on-glass substrates with defined thicknesses whose stiffness and mesh size can be independently tuned. We use these substrates to isolate the effects of mesh size on cell behavior, including attachment, spreading, migration, focal adhesion formation and YAP localization in the nucleus. Our results show that mesh size has significant, yet often overlooked, effects, on cell behavior, and contribute to a further understanding of cell-substrate interactions.
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