申请人:The Regents of the University of Colorado, a Body Corporate
公开号:US20140031285A1
公开(公告)日:2014-01-30
Here, we present a photodegradable microparticle system that can be employed to entrap and deliver bioactive proteins to cells during culture. By using a photosensitive delivery system, experimenters can achieve a wide variety of spatiotemporally regulated release profiles with a single microparticle formulation, thereby enabling one to probe many questions as to how protein presentation can be manipulated to regulate cell function. Photodegradable microparticles were synthesized via inverse suspension polymerization with a mean diameter of 22 μm, and degradation was demonstrated upon exposure to several irradiation conditions. The protein-loaded depots were incorporated into cell cultures and release of bioactive protein was quantified during the photodegradation process. This phototriggered release allowed for the delivery of TGF-β1 to stimulate PE25 cells and for the delivery of fluorescently labeled Annexin V to assay apoptotic 3T3 fibroblasts during culture. By incorporating these photoresponsive protein delivery depots into cell culture, new types of experiments are now possible to test hypotheses about how individual or multiple soluble factors might affect cell function when presented in a uniform, temporally varying, or gradient manner.
在这里,我们提出了一种可用于在培养过程中捕获和传递生物活性蛋白质到细胞的光降解微粒系统。通过使用光敏传递系统,实验者可以使用单个微粒配方实现各种时空调节的释放配置文件,从而使人们能够探究许多关于如何操纵蛋白质表达以调节细胞功能的问题。通过反相悬浮聚合法合成了平均直径为22微米的光降解微粒,并在多种辐射条件下进行了降解实验。这些载有蛋白质的储存器被纳入细胞培养中,并在光降解过程中量化了生物活性蛋白质的释放。这种光触发释放允许传递TGF-β1以刺激PE25细胞,并传递荧光标记的Annexin V来检测培养中的凋亡3T3成纤维细胞。通过将这些光响应性蛋白质传递储存器纳入细胞培养中,现在可以进行新类型的实验,以测试有关个体或多个可溶性因子如何以统一、时间变化或梯度方式影响细胞功能的假设。