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Spatial control of adult stem cell fate using nanotopographic cues.


ABSTRACT: Adult stem cells hold great promise as a source of diverse terminally differentiated cell types for tissue engineering applications. However, due to the complexity of chemical and mechanical cues specifying differentiation outcomes, development of arbitrarily complex geometric and structural arrangements of cells, adopting multiple fates from the same initial stem cell population, has been difficult. Here, we show that the topography of the cell adhesion substratum can be an instructive cue to adult stem cells and topographical variations can strongly bias the differentiation outcome of the cells towards adipocyte or osteocyte fates. Switches in cell fate decision from adipogenic to osteogenic lineages were accompanied by changes in cytoskeletal stiffness, spanning a considerable range in the cell softness/rigidity spectrum. Our findings suggest that human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSC) can respond to the varying density of nanotopographical cues by regulating their internal cytoskeletal network and use these mechanical changes to guide them toward making cell fate decisions. We used this finding to design a complex two-dimensional pattern of co-localized cells preferentially adopting two alternative fates, thus paving the road for designing and building more complex tissue constructs with diverse biomedical applications.

SUBMITTER: Ahn EH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4459500 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Spatial control of adult stem cell fate using nanotopographic cues.

Ahn Eun Hyun EH   Kim Younghoon Y   Kshitiz   An Steven S SS   Afzal Junaid J   Lee Suengwon S   Kwak Moonkyu M   Suh Kahp-Yang KY   Kim Deok-Ho DH   Levchenko Andre A  

Biomaterials 20131231 8


Adult stem cells hold great promise as a source of diverse terminally differentiated cell types for tissue engineering applications. However, due to the complexity of chemical and mechanical cues specifying differentiation outcomes, development of arbitrarily complex geometric and structural arrangements of cells, adopting multiple fates from the same initial stem cell population, has been difficult. Here, we show that the topography of the cell adhesion substratum can be an instructive cue to a  ...[more]

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