title: Cell adhesion on chiral surface: the role of protein adsorption.
abstract: Chirality is one of the basic, unique, and most appealing features of biological molecules; however, many intriguing chiral phenomena in biological world remains insufficiently revealed yet. In this research, we fabricated chiral surfaces by assembling natural chiral amino acids-cysteine of opposite configurations (D- and L-) onto gold surfaces, respectively, and investigated the adhesion of the L929 fibroblast on them. No significant differences were observed in the density of adherent cells under serum-free culture condition; while in serum-containing condition, significantly more cells adhered on the L-Cys assembled surfaces. This phenomenon suggested that serum protein might play an important role in mediating the selective adhesion of cells on chiral surfaces. Hence, we adopted both radiolabeling and surface plasmon resonance (SPR) techniques to monitor protein adsorption onto the above surfaces. The results evidently showed more proteins adsorbed onto surfaces assembled with L-Cys. We propose that the difference in protein adsorption on chiral surfaces as demonstrated in this paper might not only shed light on the ensuing investigation of bio-related chirality phenomena, but also provide a novel strategy for the rational design and fabrication of novel biomaterials and bio-related devices based on chiral effects.
authors: State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan, China.
authors: Feng
authors: F
authors: Zhou
authors: Lin
authors: L
authors: Yuan
authors: Dan
authors: D
authors: Li
authors: He
authors: H
authors: Huang
authors: Taolei
authors: T
authors: Sun
authors: Hong
authors: H
authors: Chen
mesh_terms: D000327:Adsorption; D000818:Animals; D001798:Blood Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D002417:Cattle; D002448:Cell Adhesion / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D002460:Cell Line; D016895:Culture Media, Serum-Free / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000494:pharmacology; D003545:Cysteine / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D005347:Fibroblasts / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology*; D006046:Gold / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D051379:Mice; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D020349:Surface Plasmon Resonance; D013499:Surface Properties; D023822:Tissue Engineering
chemical_list: D001798:Blood Proteins; D016895:Culture Media, Serum-Free; D006046:Gold; D003545:Cysteine