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Bisphosphonate nanoclay edge-site interactions facilitate hydrogel self-assembly and sustained growth factor localization

Bisphosphonate nanoclay edge-site interactions facilitate hydrogel self-assembly and sustained growth factor localization
Bisphosphonate nanoclay edge-site interactions facilitate hydrogel self-assembly and sustained growth factor localization
Nanoclays have generated interest in biomaterial design for their ability to enhance the mechanics of polymeric materials and impart biological function. As well as their utility as physical cross-linkers, clays have been explored for sustained localization of biomolecules to promote in vivo tissue regeneration. To date, both biomolecule-clay and polymer-clay nanocomposite strategies have utilised the negatively charged clay particle surface. As such, biomolecule-clay and polymer-clay interactions are set in competition, potentially limiting the functional enhancements achieved. Here, we apply specific bisphosphonate interactions with the positively charged clay particle edge to develop self-assembling hydrogels and functionalized clay nanoparticles with preserved surface exchange capacity. Low concentrations of nanoclay are applied to cross-link hyaluronic acid polymers derivatised with a pendant bisphosphonate to generate hydrogels with enhanced mechanical properties and preserved protein binding able to sustain, for over six weeks in vivo, the localized activity of the clinically licensed growth factor BMP-2.
2041-1723
Kim, Yanghee
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Oreffo, Richard
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Kim, Yanghee, Yang, Xia, Shi, Liyang, Lanham, Stuart, Hilborn, Jons, Oreffo, Richard, Ossipov, Dmitri and Dawson, Jonathan (2020) Bisphosphonate nanoclay edge-site interactions facilitate hydrogel self-assembly and sustained growth factor localization. Nature Communications, 11 (1), [1365]. (doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15152-9).

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Nanoclays have generated interest in biomaterial design for their ability to enhance the mechanics of polymeric materials and impart biological function. As well as their utility as physical cross-linkers, clays have been explored for sustained localization of biomolecules to promote in vivo tissue regeneration. To date, both biomolecule-clay and polymer-clay nanocomposite strategies have utilised the negatively charged clay particle surface. As such, biomolecule-clay and polymer-clay interactions are set in competition, potentially limiting the functional enhancements achieved. Here, we apply specific bisphosphonate interactions with the positively charged clay particle edge to develop self-assembling hydrogels and functionalized clay nanoparticles with preserved surface exchange capacity. Low concentrations of nanoclay are applied to cross-link hyaluronic acid polymers derivatised with a pendant bisphosphonate to generate hydrogels with enhanced mechanical properties and preserved protein binding able to sustain, for over six weeks in vivo, the localized activity of the clinically licensed growth factor BMP-2.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 January 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 13 March 2020
Published date: 1 December 2020
Additional Information: Funding Information: This work was supported by Jonathan Dawson’s EPSRC fellowship (grant number EP/ L010259/1), a European Community Seventh Framework Program Grant, BioDesign (262948) to Hilborn, Ossipov, and Oreffo, and a Regenerative Medicine Platform Acellular/Smart Materials—3D Architecture (MR/R015651/1) to Dawson and Oreffo. Dmitri Ossipov acknowledges financial support from the Swedish Research Council (Grant No. 2017-04651). The authors would like to thank Dr Janos Kanczler and Ms. Julia Wells of the University of Southampton Bone and Joint group for technical support and Mr. Mohamed Mousa and Ms. Roxanna Ramnarine Sanchez for helpful discussions and critical feedback on the paper. Publisher Copyright: © 2020, The Author(s).

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Local EPrints ID: 438546
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/438546
ISSN: 2041-1723
PURE UUID: 545c6f0e-4383-45e2-ac5c-7b7db9a7e628
ORCID for Yanghee Kim: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5312-3448
ORCID for Stuart Lanham: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-264X
ORCID for Richard Oreffo: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5995-6726
ORCID for Jonathan Dawson: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6712-0598

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Date deposited: 16 Mar 2020 17:30
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:41

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Author: Yanghee Kim ORCID iD
Author: Xia Yang
Author: Liyang Shi
Author: Stuart Lanham ORCID iD
Author: Jons Hilborn
Author: Richard Oreffo ORCID iD
Author: Dmitri Ossipov
Author: Jonathan Dawson ORCID iD

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