Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Nanotopography reveals metabolites that maintain the immunomodulatory phenotype of mesenchymal stromal cells

  • Ewan A. Ross,
  • Lesley-Anne Turner,
  • Hannah Donnelly,
  • Anwer Saeed,
  • Monica P. Tsimbouri,
  • Karl V. Burgess,
  • Gavin Blackburn,
  • Vineetha Jayawarna,
  • Yinbo Xiao,
  • Mariana A. G. Oliva,
  • Jennifer Willis,
  • Jaspreet Bansal,
  • Paul Reynolds,
  • Julia A. Wells,
  • Joanne Mountford,
  • Massimo Vassalli,
  • Nikolaj Gadegaard,
  • Richard O. C. Oreffo,
  • Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez,
  • Matthew J. Dalby

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36293-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Mesenchymal Stromal Cells are hard to expand whilst retaining immunomodulatory properties due to spontaneous differentiation and ageing in culture. Here, the authors describe a mechanotransductive link between metabolism and functional activity and identify bioactive metabolites to expand functional MSCs at cell therapy scale.