Surface initiated actin polymerization from top-down manufactured nanopatterns

Branden Brough; Karen L Christman; Tak Sing Wong; Christopher M Kolodziej; Jeffrey G Forbes; Kuan Wang; Heather D Maynard; Chih-Ming Ho

doi:10.1039/b618524j

Surface initiated actin polymerization from top-down manufactured nanopatterns

Soft Matter. 2007 Apr 24;3(5):541-546. doi: 10.1039/b618524j.

Authors

Branden Brough¹, Karen L Christman², Tak Sing Wong³, Christopher M Kolodziej², Jeffrey G Forbes⁴, Kuan Wang⁴, Heather D Maynard², Chih-Ming Ho³

Affiliations

¹ Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Engineering IV, Room 38-137J, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597, USA. chihming@ucla.edu and Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section, Lab of Muscle Biology B50, Room 1140, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. wangk@exchange.nih.gov.
² Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, 607 Charles E. Young Drive East, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA. maynard@chem.ucla.edu and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
³ Center for Scalable and Integrated NanoManufacturing, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA and Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Engineering IV, Room 38-137J, 420 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1597, USA. chihming@ucla.edu.
⁴ Muscle Proteomics and Nanotechnology Section, Lab of Muscle Biology B50, Room 1140, NIAMS, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. wangk@exchange.nih.gov.

PMID: 32900015
DOI: 10.1039/b618524j

Abstract

Protocols to fabricate high aspect-ratio biologically-based nanostructures using a top-down fabricated polymer platform and surface-initiated actin polymerization were developed.