Loading...
Please wait, while we are loading the content...
Similar Documents
Polymer-tethered membranes as quantitative models for the study of integrin-mediated cell adhesion
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Purrucker, Oliver Gönnewein, S. Foertig, Anton Jordan, Rainer Rusp, Monika Baermann, Michael Moroder, Luis Sackmann, Erich Tanaka, Motomu |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Here we report a remarkable enhancement in the adhesion strength of transmembrane cell receptors, human platelet integrin, in a new class of supported lipid membranes, which are separated from the solid substrates by linear polymer spacers. The amphiphilic polymer tether consists of linear hydrophilic poly(2-oxazoline) chains of defined length (degree of polymerizationn = 104, MW/Mn = 1.30), whose chain termini are functionalized with the tri-functional silane surface coupling group and hydrophobic n-alkyl chains as membrane anchors (lipopolymers). As a model of test cells, giant lipid vesicles were functionalized with synthetic ligand molecules containing the RGD sequence, and the free energy of adhesion Δgad between the integrin-doped tethered membrane and the vesicle was measured using a micro-interferometry technique. It has been demonstrated that the adhesion function of integrin receptors in these polymer-tethered membranes is 30 times stronger than those incorporated into membranes directly deposited onto solid substrates (solid-supported membranes). The obtained results demonstrate that linear lipopolymer spacers provide a fluid and non-denaturing environment for the incorporated cell receptors and allow quantitative modelling of cell adhesion processes. |
| Starting Page | 333 |
| Ending Page | 336 |
| Page Count | 4 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1039/B612069E |
| Volume Number | 3 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://tu-dresden.de/mn/chemie/mc/mc1/ressourcen/dateien/publikationen/download/vor-2009/Purrucker07a.pdf?lang=en |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1039/B612069E |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |