炭素負イオン注入処理を施した高分子材料上におけるタンパク質吸着性の評価

Abstract

Selective cell attachment on carbon-negative-ion implanted region of polystyrene was already reported by the authors. However, the selectivity and adhesion strength in the cell pattering were partially insufficient. The adhesive proteins called extracellular matrix (ECM), in general, intervene between cell and substrate surface in the cell attachment on the solid surface. Therefore, we considered to obtain clearer selective cell attachment with tighter binding strength on the implanted region of polystyrene when these adhesive proteins precedently adsorbed on the implanted region of polystyrene. In this paper, we have investigated adsorption properties of three kinds of adhesive proteins (gelatin, fibronectin, laminin) and cell attachment properties on precedent protein adsorbed surface of polystyrene modified by carbon negative-ion implantation. Carbon negative ions were implanted into polystyrene at energy of 10 keV with dose in a range of 1×1014~1×1016 ions/cm2. After implantation, the samples were dipped in the protein solutions for 2 hours. Then, the protein adsorption ratio between implanted and unimplanted regions was evaluated by detecting amount of nitrogen atoms on the surface by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). As a result, the protein-precedently-absorbed sample implanted at dose more than 3×1015 ions/cm2 showed the large gelatin adsorption ratio of more than 2, where the much densely populated cell-attachment was observed more than that on the implanted region of polystyrene without precedent adsorption of protein after cell culture.