Chinese Optics Letters, Volume. 10, Issue 10, 101701(2012)

Measurement of interaction force between RGD-peptide and Hela cell surface by optical tweezers

Mincheng Zhong, Guosheng Xue, Jinhua Zhou, Ziqiang Wang, and Yinmei Li

Since RGD peptides (R: arginine; G: glycine; D: aspartic acid) are found to promote cell adhesion, they are modified at numerous materials surface for medical applications such as drug delivery and regenerative medicine. Peptide-cell surface interactions play a key role in the above applications. In this letter, we study the adhesion force between the RGD-coated bead and Hela cell surface by optical tweezes. The adhesion is dominated by the binding of \alpha5\beta1 and RGD-peptide with higher adhesion probability and stronger adhesion strength compared with the adhesion of bare bead and cell surface. The binding force for a single \alpha5\beta1-GRGDSP pair is determined to be 16.8 pN at a loading rate of 1.5 nN/s. The unstressed off-rate is 1.65 \times 10-2 s-1 and the distance of transition state for the rigid binding model is 3.0 nm.

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Mincheng Zhong, Guosheng Xue, Jinhua Zhou, Ziqiang Wang, Yinmei Li. Measurement of interaction force between RGD-peptide and Hela cell surface by optical tweezers[J]. Chinese Optics Letters, 2012, 10(10): 101701

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Received: Feb. 20, 2012

Accepted: Apr. 13, 2012

Published Online: Aug. 3, 2012

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DOI:10.3788/col201210.101701

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