Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Bi-directional cell-pericellular matrix interactions direct stem cell fate

  • Silvia A. Ferreira,
  • Meghna S. Motwani,
  • Peter A. Faull,
  • Alexis J. Seymour,
  • Tracy T. L. Yu,
  • Marjan Enayati,
  • Dheraj K. Taheem,
  • Christoph Salzlechner,
  • Tabasom Haghighi,
  • Ewa M. Kania,
  • Oommen P. Oommen,
  • Tarek Ahmed,
  • Sandra Loaiza,
  • Katarzyna Parzych,
  • Francesco Dazzi,
  • Oommen P. Varghese,
  • Frederic Festy,
  • Agamemnon E. Grigoriadis,
  • Holger W. Auner,
  • Ambrosius P. Snijders,
  • Laurent Bozec,
  • Eileen Gentleman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06183-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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3D hydrogels have provided information on the physical requirements of stem cell fate, but the contribution of interactions with the pericellular environment are under-explored. Here the authors show that pericellular matrix secreted by human bone marrow stromal cells (hMSC) embedded in a HA-based hydrogel contribute to hMSC fate.