Abstract
A suitable surface is vital for maintaining or even promoting cells’ function and communication. Recently, studies show that nanostructured coatings could have a potential in improving cell adhesion. However, it hardly minimizes the contamination by using traditional solution-coating technology. Matrix-assisted pulsed laser evaporation (MAPLE) technique is a contamination-free process and demonstrates an efficient process to deposit biopolymer without damaging their backbone on the surface of various substrates. Here, upconversion nanoparticles (NaGdF4: Yb3+, Er3+) with/without immunoglobulin G (IgG) modification were produced by a one-pot synthesis method. The average size of the upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) is 50 ± 8 nm. IgG bio-conjugated on the surface of UCNPs can be directly observed by transmission electron microscope (TEM). MAPLE system utilizing a Nd:YAG laser (λ = 532 nm, ν = 10 Hz) is applied to deposit UCNPs with/without IgG modification on the glass bottom of culture dish. In addition, the behaviors of human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) cultured on the culture dishes coated with UCNPs with/without IgG have been studied as compared to the control sample, glass coated with gelatin. No toxic effect is imposed on cells. The results of this work indicate that the deposition of UCNPs with/without antibody by the MAPLE technique could enhance the adhesion and proliferation of cells.
Highlights
Epithelial cells can be found at the inner and outer surfaces of the human body, including the skin, intestines, airway, and reproductive tract
The upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) modified with antibodies remained the cubic shape, and the average particle size is around 54 ± 8 nm
The analyzed results of cells number show that the amount of the cells on the surface of the UCNPs-based sample is about 8% higher than that of control. These results indicate that both UCNPs samples and UCNPs-immunoglobulin G (IgG) samples are biocompatible with the Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) cells which are consistent with the previous works [38]
Summary
Epithelial cells can be found at the inner and outer surfaces of the human body, including the skin, intestines, airway, and reproductive tract. Very few work has been reported on the effect of the substrate with MAPLE-deposited biomolecule/protein nanoparticles on the performance of cell culture. UCNPs with/without modification of IgG were directly deposited on the glass bottom of a cell culture dish by using a MAPLE process with 532 nm Nd:YAG laser.
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