Control of gene expression in engineered mammalian cells with a programmable shear-stress inducer

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In humans, cellular mechanoperception serves as the basis of touch sensation and proprioception, contributes to the proper programming of cell fate during embryonic development, and plays a pivotal role in the development of mechanosensitive tissues. Molecular mechanoreceptors can respond to their environment by mediating transient adjustments of ion homeostasis, which subsequently trigger calcium-dependent alteration of gene expression via specific signaling pathways such as the nuclear factor of the activated T-cells pathway. Although, mechanoreceptors are potential drug targets for various diseases, current techniques to study mechanically gated processes are often based on custom-tailored microfluidic systems, which require special setups or have limited throughput. Here, we present a platform to characterize shear-stress-triggered, calcium-mediated gene expression, which employs a programmable, 96-well-format, shear-stress induction device to examine the effects of imposing various mechanical loads on mammalian adherent cell lines. The presented method is suitable for high-throughput experiments and provides a large tunable parameter space to optimize conditions for different cell types. Our findings indicate that the device is an effective tool to explore conditions in terms of frequency, intensity, intervals as well as extracellular matrix composition alongside the evaluation of different combinations of mechanosensitive proteins for mechanically activated gene expression. We believe our results can serve as a platform for further investigations into shear stress-controlled gene expression in basic research and drug screening.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:118

Enthalten in:

Biotechnology and bioengineering - 118(2021), 12 vom: 15. Dez., Seite 4751-4759

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Strittmatter, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Argast, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Buchman, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Krawczyk, Krzysztof [VerfasserIn]
Fussenegger, Martin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Calcium
Journal Article
Mechanoperception
MscL
NFAT
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SY7Q814VUP

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Date Completed 28.02.2022

Date Revised 21.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/bit.27939

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM330488643