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Peptide Synthesis> | … (Wood Dale, Illinois, USA). CGRGDS peptide was custom purchased from Genscript (Piscataway, NJ, USA). Alexa Fluor 647 NHS ester, Hyclone DMEM/F12, Presto Blue reagent, calf bovine serum (CBS), Calcein AM, Hoechst stain, 5,5'-dithio-bis-(2-nitro … | Get A Quote |
Low-fouling hydrogels with tunable degradation rates and biochemical environments have the potential to improve adoptive cell therapies for cancer immunotherapy and regenerative medicine. To this end, we developed in situ gelling hydrogels from low-fouling poly(carboxybetaine-co-maleimide) (pCBM) random copolymers and thiolated hyaluronic acid (HA-SH). pCBM-HA hydrogel enzymatic degradation rates were tuned 5 fold by altering pCBM composition (4, 11, and 16 maleimide mol%) and 2.3 fold by HA-SH concentration (1-2 wt%). pCBM-HA gels were low-fouling towards bovine serum albumin (BSA; adsorbed ∼20 μg cm-2) and resisted fibroblast adhesion. To control pCBM-HA bioactivity, the cell adhesive peptide CGRGDS was im... More