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ArticleAdvanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)2023

Tenascin-C Activation of Lung Fibroblasts in a 3D Synthetic Lung Extracellular Matrix Mimic.

Aritra Nath Kundu, Carey E Dougan, Samar Mahmoud, Alara Kilic, Alexi Panagiotou, Nathan R Richbourg, Ninette Irakoze, Shelly R Peyton

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Article in Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aritra Nath KunduDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5200-2153
Carey E DouganDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2165-771X
Samar MahmoudMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.
Alara KilicDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.
Alexi PanagiotouMolecular and Cellular Biology Graduate Program, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.
Nathan R RichbourgDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5091-3321
Ninette IrakozeDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8323-6745
Shelly R PeytonDepartment of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, 01003, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7364-8727
Amherst College · US

Funding

CHEMISTRY-BIOLOGY INTERFACE PREDOCTORAL TRAINING GRANTST32GM008515 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI THOMPSON, LYNMARIE K. · 1995 to 2020
$4.3M
Biotechnology Training Program in Applied Life SciencesT32GM135096 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI Jeanne Ann Hardy, Ashish A. Kulkarni · 2020 to 2026
$3.9M
Chemistry-Biology Interface Predoctoral Training GrantT32GM139789 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI ERIC Robert STRIETER · 2021 to 2026
$3.4M
Tissue-specific stem cells and breast cancer tissue tropism in bioengineered microenvironmentsDP2CA186573 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI PEYTON, SHELLY R. · 2013 to 2015
$2.6M
Acquisition of an Orbitrap MSS10OD010645 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST · PI EYLES, STEPHEN J. · 2013 to 2013
$600k
NCI NIH HHS DP2 CA186573NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008515NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM135096NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM139789NIH HHS S10 OD010645NIH HHS S10OD010645
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lung extracellular matrix (ECM) maintains the structural integrity of the tissue and regulates the phenotype and functions of resident fibroblasts. Lung-metastatic breast cancer alters these cell-ECM interactions, promoting fibroblast activation. There is a need for bio-instructive ECM models that match the ECM composition and biomechanics of the lung to study these cell-matrix interactions in vitro. Here, a synthetic, bioactive hydrogel is synthesized that mimics the native lung modulus and includes a representative distribution of the most abundant ECM peptide motifs responsible for integrin-binding and matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-mediated degradation in the lung, which enables quiescent culture of human lung fibroblasts (HLFs). Stimulation with transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1), metastatic breast cancer conditioned media (CM), or tenascin-C-derived integrin-binding peptide activated hydrogel-encapsulated HLFs demonstrates multiple environmental methods to activate HLFs in a lung ECM-mimicking hydrogel. This lung hydrogel platform is a tunable, synthetic approach to studying the independent and combinatorial effects of ECM in regulating fibroblast quiescence and activation.

Indexed as

Breast NeoplasmsTenascinExtracellular MatrixFemaleFibroblastsHumansHydrogelsIntegrinsLungPeptidesHydrogelsIntegrinsPeptidesTenascinbreast cancer metastasishydrogelspeptidespoly(ethylene glycol)stiffness

Identifiers

PMID37227134
PMCPMC10528529
OpenAlexW4378173171

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