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ArticleNano letters2021

Accessing and Assessing the Cell-Surface Glycocalyx Using DNA Origami.

Piyumi Wijesekara, Ying Liu, Weitao Wang, Elizabeth K Johnston, Mara L G Sullivan, Rebecca E Taylor, Xi Ren

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Article in Nano letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Piyumi WijesekaraDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Ying LiuDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Weitao WangDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Elizabeth K JohnstonDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Mara L G SullivanCenter for Biologic Imaging, University of Pittsburgh, 3500 Terrace Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Rebecca E TaylorDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-5299-8296
Xi RenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3187-1311
Carnegie Mellon University · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Instrumenting blood platelets: nanosensors for cumulative shear and compression measurementR21HL152147 · NHLBI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI TAYLOR, REBECCA E. · 2020 to 2021
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NHLBI NIH HHS R21 HL152147
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cell-surface glycocalyx serves as a physiological barrier regulating cellular accessibility to macromolecules and other cells. Conventional glycocalyx characterization has largely been morphological rather than functional. Here, we demonstrated direct glycocalyx anchoring of DNA origami nanotiles and performed a comprehensive comparison with traditional origami targeting to the phospholipid bilayer (PLB) using cholesterol. While DNA nanotiles effectively accessed single-stranded DNA initiators anchored on the glycocalyx, their accessibility to the underlying PLB was only permitted by extended nanotile-to-initiator spacing or by enzymatic glycocalyx degradation using trypsin or pathogenic neuraminidase. Thus, the DNA nanotiles, being expelled by the physiologic glycocalyx, provide an effective functional measure of the glycocalyx barrier integrity and faithfully predict cell-to-cell accessibility during DNA-guided multicellular assembly. Lastly, the glycocalyx-anchoring mechanism enabled enhanced cell-surface stability and cellular uptake of nanotiles compared to PLB anchoring. This research lays the foundation for future development of DNA nanodevices to access the cell surface.

Indexed as

DNAGlycocalyxCell MembraneDNA, Single-StrandedDNADNA, Single-StrandedcholesterolDNA origamiglycocalyxmetabolic labelingnanotechnology

Identifiers

PMID34030445
PMCPMC8193633
OpenAlexW3164538869

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