Surface grafting of electrospun fibers using ATRP and RAFT for the control of biointerfacial interactions

Biointerphases

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Thomas Ameringer¹  Francesca Ercole³  Kelly M Tsang¹  Bryan R Coad¹  Xueliang Hou³  Andrew Rodda¹  David R Nisbet³  Helmut Thissen¹  Richard A Evans¹  Laurence Meagher¹  John S Forsythe³ 

[1] ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University;Ian Wark Research Institute, University of South Australia;Institute for Frontier Materials, Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, Deakin University

关键词: Electrospun fibers;    Polymer brushes;    Surface-initiated polymerisation;    Surface fouling;    Surface immobilisation;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1559-4106-8-16

学科分类：基础医学

来源: SpringerOpen

【 摘 要 】

The ability to present signalling molecules within a low fouling 3D environment that mimics the extracellular matrix is an important goal for a range of biomedical applications, both in vitro and in vivo. Cell responses can be triggered by non-specific protein interactions occurring on the surface of a biomaterial, which is an undesirable process when studying specific receptor-ligand interactions. It is therefore useful to present specific ligands of interest to cell surface receptors in a 3D environment that minimizes non-specific interactions with biomolecules, such as proteins. In this study, surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP) of poly(ethylene glycol)-based monomers was carried out from the surface of electrospun fibers composed of a styrene/vinylbenzyl chloride copolymer. Surface initiated radical addition-fragmentation chain transfer (SI-RAFT) polymerisation was also carried out to generate bottle brush copolymer coatings consisting of poly(acrylic acid) and poly(acrylamide). These were grown from surface trithiocarbonate groups generated from the chloromethyl styrene moieties existing in the original synthesised polymer. XPS was used to characterise the surface composition of the fibers after grafting and after coupling with fluorine functional XPS labels. Bottle brush type coatings were able to be produced by ATRP which consisted of poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate and a terminal alkyne-functionalised monomer. The ATRP coatings showed reduced non-specific protein adsorption, as a result of effective PEG incorporation and pendant alkynes groups existing as part of the brushes allowed for further conjugation of via azide-alkyne Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. In the case of RAFT, carboxylic acid moieties were effectively coupled to an amine label via amide bond formation. In each case XPS analysis demonstrated that covalent immobilisation had effectively taken place. Overall, the studies presented an effective platform for the preparation of 3D scaffolds which contain effective conjugation sites for attachment of specific bioactive signals of interest, as well as actively reducing non-specific protein interactions.

【 授权许可】

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