Initial Steps towards Spatiotemporal Signaling through Biomaterials Using Click-to-Release Chemistry.

ABSTRACT: The process of wound healing is a tightly controlled cascade of events, where severe skin wounds are resolved via scar tissue. This fibrotic response may be diminished by applying anti-fibrotic factors to the wound, thereby stimulating regeneration over scarring. The development of tunable biomaterials that enable spatiotemporal control over the release of anti-fibrotics would greatly benefit wound healing. Herein, harnessing the power of click-to-release chemistry for regenerative medicine, we demonstrate the feasibility of such an approach. For this purpose, one side of a bis-N-hydroxysuccinimide-trans-cyclooctene (TCO) linker was functionalized with human epidermal growth factor (hEGF), an important regulator during wound healing, whereas on the other side a carrier protein was conjugat

SUBMITTER: Gansevoort M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9610979 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature