Nanocoil-substrate complex for controlling stem cell behavior, preparation method thereof, and method of controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cell by using the same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022112460-A1
Application number	US-202117443501-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 27, 2021
Priority date	Oct 13, 2020
Publication date	Apr 14, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention relates to a nanocoil-substrate complex for controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cells, a manufacturing method thereof, and a method of controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cells by using the nanocoil-substrate complex, and the method of controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cells may temporally and reversibly control adhesion and phenotypic differentiation of stem cells in vivo and ex vivo by controlling application/non-application of a magnetic field to the nanocoil-substrate complex.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A nanocoil-substrate complex for controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cells, the nanocoil-substrate complex comprising:
a substrate; one or more nanocoils chemically coupled to the substrate; and one or more integrin ligand peptides chemically coupled to the nanocoil, wherein the nanocoil is formed of a spiral nanowire and includes one or more metal elements, the nanocoil has a length of 100 nm to 20 μm, and the nanocoil has a length reversibly changed depending on application/non-application of a magnetic field within a range of Equation 1 below,
| L 1 −L 0 |>10 nm   [Equation 1]

in Equation 1, L 1 is a length of the nanocoil when the magnetic field is applied, and L 0 is a length of the nanocoil when the magnetic field is not applied.

2 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein the metal element includes one or more elements among cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), and nickel (Ni).

3 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein the nanowire is provided in a form of a wire having a circular cross-section, and has a diameter of 5 nm to 100 nm, and
an average length of a spiral outer diameter of the nanocoil is 50 nm to 200 nm.

4 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein the applied magnetic field has a size of 100 mT to 7 T.

5 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of integrin ligand peptides is coupled to the nanocoil while being spaced apart from each other, and an average interval between the adjacent integrin ligands is 1 nm to 10 nm.

6 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein when the magnetic field is applied, adjacent spirals of the nanocoil are spaced apart from each other, and a pitch between the adjacent spirals is 1 nm to 100 nm.

7 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein the integrin ligand peptide includes a thiolated integrin ligand peptide, and
a thiol group of the integrin ligand peptide is coupled to the spiral nanocoil by a polyethylene glycol linker.

8 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein the nanocoil is coupled to the substrate by coupling carboxylate to the nanocoil.

9 . The nanocoil-substrate complex of claim 1 , wherein the surface of the substrate, which is not coupled with the nanocoil, is inactivated.

10 . A method of preparing a nanocoil-substrate complex for controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cells, the method comprising:
preparing a nanocoil by electrodepositing a solution including one or more metal elements; coupling a carboxylate substituent to the nanocoil by mixing the nanocoil and a first suspension; manufacturing a substrate coupled with the nanocoil by soaking a substrate, of which a surface is activated, in a solution containing the nanocoil to which the carboxylate is coupled; coupling a linker to a distal end of the nanocoil by soaking the substrate coupled with the nanocoil in a solution containing a polyethylene glycol linker; and coupling an integrin ligand peptide (RGD) to the nanocoil by mixing a second suspension containing the integrin ligand peptide and the activated substrate coupled with the nanocoil.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein in the preparing of the nanocoil, the solution containing the metal element includes one or more elements among cobalt (Co), iron (Fe), and nickel (Ni).

12 . The method of claim 10 , wherein in the coupling of the carboxylate substituent, the first suspension includes an amino acid derivative containing a carboxylate substituent, and
the amino acid derivative is coupled to a surface of the nanocoil.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein in the coupling of the integrin ligand peptide, the second suspension includes thiolated integrin ligand peptide.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the manufacturing of the substrate coupled with the nanocoil uses the substrate, of which the surface is aminated, by activating the surface of the substrate by immersing the substrate in an acid solution and then soaking the substrate, of which the surface is activated, in an aminosilane solution.

15 . The method of claim 11 , further comprising:
after the coupling of the integrin ligand peptide to the nanocoil, soaking the substrate coupled with the nanocoil in a solution including a polyethylene glycol derivative and inactivating a surface of the substrate which is not coupled with the nanocoil.

16 . A method of controlling adhesion and differentiation of stem cells, the method comprising:
controlling cell adhesion and differentiation of stem cells by treating the nanocoil-substrate complex for controlling cell adhesion and differentiation of the stem cells according to claim 1 with a culture medium and then applying a magnetic field in a range from 20 mT to 7 T, wherein the nanocoil has a length reversibly changed within Equation 1 below depending on application/non-application of the magnetic field,
| L 1 −L 0 |>10 nm   [Equation 1]

in Equation 1, L 1 is a length of the nanocoil when the magnetic field is applied, and L 0 is a length of the nanocoil when the magnetic field is not applied.

17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the controlling of the adhesion and the differentiation of the stem cells includes controlling the adhesion and the differentiation of the stem cells in vivo and ex vivo by reversibly changing the length of the nanocoil depending on the application/non-application of the magnetic field to the nanocoil-substrate complex.

18 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the adhesion and mechanosensing differentiation of stem cells are degraded in the case where the magnetic field is not applied to the nanocoil-substrate complex.

19 . The method of claim 16 , wherein the adhesion and mechanosensing differentiation of stem cells are promoted in the case where the magnetic field is applied to the nanocoil-substrate complex.

Assignees

• Univ Korea Res & Bus Found

Inventors

• Kim Young-Keun
• Kang Heemin
• Ko Min-Jun
• Min Sun-Hong

Classifications

• C25D3/562

  containing more than 50% by weight of iron or nickel or cobalt · CPC title

• C25D1/006

  Nanostructures, e.g. using aluminium anodic oxidation templates [AAO] · CPC title

• B82Y40/00

  Manufacture or treatment of nanostructures · CPC title

• B82Y30/00

  Nanotechnology for materials or surface science, e.g. nanocomposites · CPC title

• B82Y5/00

  Nanobiotechnology or nanomedicine, e.g. protein engineering or drug delivery · CPC title