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Bone tissue engineering seeks to adequately restore functions related to physical and biological properties, aiming at a repair process similar to natural bone. The use of compatible biopolymers, such as bacterial cellulose (BC), as well as having interesting mechanical characteristics, presents a slow in vivo degradation rate, and the ability to be chemically modified. To promote better bioactivity towards BC, we synthesized an innovative BC membrane associated to hydroxyapatite (HA) and anti-bone morphogenetic protein antibody (anti-BMP-2) (BC-HA-anti-BMP-2). We present the physical-chemical, biological and toxicological characterization of BC-HA-anti-BMP-2. Presence of BC and HA components in the membranes was confirmed by SEM-EDS and FTIR assays. No toxic potential was found in MC3T3-E1 cells by cytotoxicity assays (XTT Assay and Clonogenic Survival), genotoxicity (Comet Assay) and mutagenicity (Cytokinesis-blocked micronucleus Test). The in vitro release kinetics of anti-BMP-2 antibodies detected gradually reducing antibody levels, reducing approximately 70% in 7 days and 90% in 14 days. BC-HA-anti-BMP-2 increased  SPP1 ,  BGLAP ,  VEGF ,  ALPL ,  RUNX2  and  TNFRSF11B  expression, genes involved in bone repair and also increased mineralization nodules and phosphatase alcalin (ALP) activity levels. In conclusion, we developed BC-HA-anti-BMP-2 as an innovative and promising biomaterial with interesting physical-chemical and biological properties which may be a good alternative to treatment with commercial BMP-2 protein.

Bacterial cellulose membrane functionalized with hydroxiapatite and anti-bone morphogenetic protein 2: A promising material for bone regeneration