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Self-Assembly of RGD-Functionalized Recombinant Spider Silk Protein into Microspheres in Physiological Buffer and in the Presence of Hyaluronic Acid
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science, Protein Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6696-9055
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Protein Science. Spiber Technologies AB, Roslagstullsbacken 15, 114 21 Stockholm, Sweden, Roslagstullsbacken 15.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3654-1840
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Micro and Nanosystems. Spiber Technologies AB, Roslagstullsbacken 15, 114 21 Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8925-2815
KTH, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health (CBH), Chemistry, Glycoscience.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1981-3736
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2023 (English)In: ACS Applied Bio Materials, E-ISSN 2576-6422, Vol. 6, no 9, p. 3696-3705Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Biomaterials made of self-assembling protein building blocks are widely explored for biomedical applications, for example, as drug carriers, tissue engineering scaffolds, and functionalized coatings. It has previously been shown that a recombinant spider silk protein functionalized with a cell binding motif from fibronectin, FN-4RepCT (FN-silk), self-assembles into fibrillar structures at interfaces, i.e., membranes, fibers, or foams at liquid/air interfaces, and fibrillar coatings at liquid/solid interfaces. Recently, we observed that FN-silk also assembles into microspheres in the bulk of a physiological buffer (PBS) solution. Herein, we investigate the self-assembly process of FN-silk into microspheres in the bulk and how its progression is affected by the presence of hyaluronic acid (HA), both in solution and in a cross-linked HA hydrogel. Moreover, we characterize the size, morphology, mesostructure, and protein secondary structure of the FN-silk microspheres prepared in PBS and HA. Finally, we examine how the FN-silk microspheres can be used to mediate cell adhesion and spreading of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) during cell culture. These investigations contribute to our fundamental understanding of the self-assembly of silk protein into materials and demonstrate the use of silk microspheres as additives for cell culture applications.

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American Chemical Society (ACS) , 2023. Vol. 6, no 9, p. 3696-3705
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cell culture, confocal microscopy, cryo-electron microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, hyaluronic acid, recombinant spider silk, self-assembly, silk microspheres
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Biochemistry Molecular Biology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-349824DOI: 10.1021/acsabm.3c00373ISI: 001048127800001PubMedID: 37579070Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85168992000OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-349824DiVA, id: diva2:1881645
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