Effect of RGD functionalization and stiffness modulation of polyelectrolyte multilayer films on muscle cell differentiation |
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Authors: | Varvara Gribova Cécile Gauthier-Rouvière Corinne Albigès-Rizo Rachel Auzely-Velty Catherine Picart |
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Institution: | 1. CNRS UMR 5628 (LMGP), Grenoble Institute of Technology and CNRS, 3 Parvis Louis Néel, F-38016 Grenoble Cedex, France;2. Centre de Recherches sur les Macromolécules Végétales (CERMAV-CNRS), Domaine Universitaire de Grenoble, St. Martin d’Hères, 601 Rue de la Chimie, Grenoble, France;3. Universités Montpellier 2 et 1, CRBM, CNRS, UMR 5237, 1919 Route de Mende, 34293 Montpellier, France;4. INSERMU823, ERLCNRS3148, Université Joseph Fourier, Institut Albert Bonniot, Site Santé, BP170, 38042 Grenoble Cedex 9, France |
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Abstract: | Skeletal muscle tissue engineering holds promise for the replacement of muscle damaged by injury and for the treatment of muscle diseases. Although arginylglycylaspartic acid (RGD) substrates have been widely explored in tissue engineering, there have been no studies aimed at investigating the combined effects of RGD nanoscale presentation and matrix stiffness on myogenesis. In the present work we use polyelectrolyte multilayer films made of poly(l-lysine) (PLL) and poly(l-glutamic) acid (PGA) as substrates of tunable stiffness that can be functionalized by a RGD adhesive peptide to investigate important events in myogenesis, including adhesion, migration, proliferation and differentiation. C2C12 myoblasts were used as cellular models. RGD presentation on soft films and increasing film stiffness could both induce cell adhesion, but the integrins involved in adhesion were different in the case of soft and stiff films. Soft films with RGD peptide appeared to be the most appropriate substrate for myogenic differentiation, while the stiff PLL/PGA films induced significant cell migration and proliferation and inhibited myogenic differentiation. ROCK kinase was found to be involved in the myoblast response to the different films. Indeed, its inhibition was sufficient to rescue differentiation on stiff films, but no significant changes were observed on stiff films with the RGD peptide. These results suggest that different signaling pathways may be activated depending on the mechanical and biochemical properties of multilayer films. This study emphasizes the advantage of soft PLL/PGA films presenting the RGD peptide in terms of myogenic differentiation. This soft RGD-presenting film may be further used as a coating of various polymeric scaffolds for muscle tissue engineering. |
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