发布: 2018年02月20日第8卷第4期 DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2733 浏览次数: 8054
评审: Vivien Jane Coulson-ThomasChristopher J. PoonAnonymous reviewer(s)
Abstract
Networks of amyloid nanofibrils fabricated from common globular proteins such as lysozyme and β-lactoglobulin have material properties that mimic the extracellular microenvironment of many cell types. Cells cultured on such amyloid fibril networks show improved attachment, spreading and in the case of mesenchymal stem cells improved differentiation. Here we describe a detailed protocol for fabricating amyloid fibril networks suitable for eukaryotic cell culture applications.
Keywords: Amyloid fibrils (淀粉样纤维)Background
A wide variety of proteins and peptides can adopt non-native structures and aggregate into amyloid fibrils possessing a common cross β-sheet secondary structure (Nelson et al., 2005). Amyloid fibrils are the pathological hallmarks of a number of neurodegenerative diseases (Chiti and Dobson, 2006), however, there is a growing consensus that mature amyloid fibrils are non-toxic by-products and the toxic species are soluble oligomers, pre-fibrillar aggregates (Kayed et al., 2003), or perhaps the process of aggregation itself (Reynolds et al., 2011). Additionally, a number of functional amyloids with essential physiological features have been discovered in a wide range of organisms (including humans) (Chiti and Dobson, 2006).
Non-toxic synthetic amyloid fibrils can be made from inexpensive, readily available, food grade proteins (Jung et al., 2008; Lara et al., 2011) and have a number of important applications in a wide range of technologies (Dharmadana et al., 2017; Wei et al., 2017). For example 2D and 3D networks of amyloid fibrils have physical and mechanical properties that mimic the local microenvironment of many eukaryotic cells, namely the extracellular matrix (ECM), thus are promising biomimetic materials for cell culture applications (Reynolds et al., 2014 and 2015; Gilbert et al., 2017). Here we describe in detail a protocol to fabricate aqueous suspensions of amyloid fibrils and their subsequent adsorption onto solid supports where they have been shown to control cell adhesion (Reynolds et al., 2014), spreading (Reynolds et al., 2015) and direct the differentiation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) (Gilbert et al., 2017).
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Charnley, M., Gilbert, J., Jones, O. G. and Reynolds, N. P. (2018). Preparation of Amyloid Fibril Networks. Bio-protocol 8(4): e2733. DOI: 10.21769/BioProtoc.2733.
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干细胞 > 成体干细胞 > 间充质干细胞
生物化学 > 蛋白质 > 自组装
细胞生物学 > 细胞分离和培养 > 细胞生长
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