Protein spot arrays on graphene oxide coatings for efficient single-cell capture

R Kumar, Steffan Llewellyn, S. K. Vasantham, Kaiwen Nie, S. Sekula-Neuner, Aravind Vijayaraghavan, M. Hirtz

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Abstract

Biomedical applications such as cell screening or cell-cell interaction studies require placement and adhesion of cells on surfaces with controlled numbers and location. In particular, single-cell arraying and positioning has come into focus as a basis of such applications. An ideal substrate would combine biocompatibility with favorable attributes such as pattern stability and easy processing. Here, we present a simple yet effective approach to single-cell arraying based on a graphene oxide (GO) surface carrying protein (fibronectin) microarrays to define cell adhesion points. These capture NIH-3T3 cells, resulting in cell arrays, which are benchmarked against
analogous arrays on silanized glass samples. We reveal significant improvement in cell-capture performance by the GO coating with regards to overall cell adhesion and single-cell feature occupancy. This overall improvement of cell-arraying combined with retained transparency of substrate for microscopy and good biocompatibility makes this graphene-based approach attractive for single-cell experiments.
Original languageEnglish
Article number3895
JournalScientific Reports
Early online date10 Mar 2022
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 10 Mar 2022

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