Issue 6, 2023

Photocontrolled DNA nanotubes as stiffness tunable matrices for controlling cellular behavior

Abstract

Cell behavior is determined by a variety of properties of the extracellular environment like ligand spacing, nanotopography, and matrix stiffness. Matrix stiffness changes occur during many biological processes like wound healing, tumorigenesis, and development. These spatio-temporal dynamic changes in stiffness can cause significant changes in cell morphology, cell signaling, migration, cytoskeleton etc. In this paper, we have created photocontrolled stiffness-tunable DNA nanotubes which can undergo reversible changes in their conformation upon UV and VIS irradiation. When used as a substrate for cell culture, the photocontrolled DNA nanotubes can tune the cell morphology of HeLa cells from a long spindle-shaped morphology with long filopodia protrusions to a round morphology with short filopodia-like extrusions. Such a photocontrolled nanosystem can give us deep insights into the cell–matrix interactions in the native extracellular matrix caused by nanoscopic changes in stiffness.

Graphical abstract: Photocontrolled DNA nanotubes as stiffness tunable matrices for controlling cellular behavior

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
21 9 2022
Accepted
16 1 2023
First published
17 1 2023

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 2904-2910

Photocontrolled DNA nanotubes as stiffness tunable matrices for controlling cellular behavior

S. Sethi, T. Emura, K. Hidaka, H. Sugiyama and M. Endo, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 2904 DOI: 10.1039/D2NR05202D

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