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Cell transfer printing from patterned poly(ethylene glycol)‐oleyl surfaces to biological hydrogels for rapid and efficient cell micropatterning
Author(s) -
Takano Toshiaki,
Yamaguchi Satoshi,
Matsunuma Erika,
Komiya Senori,
Shinkai Masashige,
Takezawa Toshiaki,
Nagamune Teruyuki
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
biotechnology and bioengineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.136
H-Index - 189
eISSN - 1097-0290
pISSN - 0006-3592
DOI - 10.1002/bit.23284
Subject(s) - micropatterning , ethylene glycol , self healing hydrogels , tissue engineering , materials science , extracellular matrix , membrane , matrix (chemical analysis) , chemical engineering , chemistry , nanotechnology , polymer chemistry , biomedical engineering , biochemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , medicine , engineering
Abstract Cell transfer printing from patterned poly(ethylene glycol)‐oleyl surfaces onto biological hydrogel sheets is investigated herein, as a new cell stamping method for both cell microarray and tissue engineering. By overlaying a hydrogel sheet on the cells immobilized on the poly(ethylene glycol)‐oleyl surface and successively peeling it off, the immobilized cells were transferred onto a hydrogel sheet because the adhesive interaction between the cells and the hydrogel was stronger than that between the cells and the poly(ethylene glycol)‐oleyl surface. Four types of human cell could be efficiently transferred onto a rigid collagen sheet. The transfer printing ratios, for all cells, were above 80% and achieved within 90 min. A cell microarray was successfully prepared on a collagen gel sheet using the present stamping method. We have also demonstrated that the transferred pattern of endothelial cells is transformed to the patterned tube‐like structure on the reconstituted basement membrane matrix. Finally, the patterns of two types of endothelial cell are shown to be easily prepared on the matrix, and the desired tube‐like structures, including the orderly pattern of the two different cells, were formed spontaneously. Thus, the present poly(ethylene glycol)‐oleyl coated substrates are useful for rapid and efficient cell stamping, in the preparation of multi‐cellular pattern on extracellular matrices. Biotechnol. Bioeng. 2012;109: 244–251. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.