Metabolomic Profiling and Mechanotransduction of Single Chondrocytes Encapsulated in Alginate Microgels
Abstract Human articular cartilage is comprised of two main components, the extracellular matrix (ECM) and the pericellular matrix (PCM). The PCM helps to protect chondrocytes in the cartilage from mechanical loads, but in patients with osteoarthritis, the PCM is weakened resulting in increased chondrocyte stress. As chondrocytes are responsible for cartilage synthesis and maintenance, it is important to understand how mechanical loads affect cellular responses of chondrocytes. Many studies have examined the chondrocyte response toin vitromechanical loading by embedding in stiff agarose. However, these experiments are mostly performed in the absence of PCM which may obscure important responses to mechanotransduction. Here, we demonstrate that drop-based microfluidics allows culture of single chondrocytes in alginate microgels for cell-directed PCM synthesis that closely mimics thein vivomicroenvironment. Chondrocytes form PCM over 10 days in these single cell microenvironments. Single cell microgels and monolayer controls were encapsulated in high stiffness agarose to mimic the cartilage PCM. After physiological dynamic compression in a custom-built bioreactor, microgels exhibited distinct metabolomic profiles from both uncompressed and monolayer controls. These results demonstrate the potential of single cell encapsulation in alginate microgels to advance cartilage tissue engineering and basic chondrocyte mechanobiology..
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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 21. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022 |
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Fredrikson, Jacob P. [VerfasserIn] |
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