Extracellular Matrix News Volume 14.21 | Apr 20 2023

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    TOP STORY

    In Mitosis Integrins Reduce Adhesion to Extracellular Matrix and Strengthen Adhesion to Adjacent Cells

    Investigators reported that, similar to interphase, mitotic cells could employ integrins to initiate adhesion to the ECM in a kindlin- and talin-dependent manner.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Programmable DNA Hydrogel Provides Suitable Microenvironment for Enhancing TSPCS Therapy in Healing of Tendinopathy

    A tendon stem/progenitor cells (TSPCs) delivery system was developed by encapsulating TSPCs within a DNA hydrogel as the DNA hydrogel offered an excellent artificial ECM microenvironment by providing nutrition for proliferation and protection against shear forces.
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    DNA Hydrogels for Bone Regeneration

    The authors described the design and synthesis of DNA hydrogels, gels composed of DNA that swelled in water, their interactions in vitro with the osteogenic cell lines MC3T3-E1 and mouse calvarial osteoblast, and their promotion of new bone formation in rat calvarial wounds.
    [Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America]

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    Exercise Training Remodels Inguinal White Adipose Tissue through Adaptations in Innervation, Vascularization, and the Extracellular Matrix

    Using biochemical, imaging, and multi-omics analyses, researchers found that 11 days of wheel running in male mice causes profound iWAT remodeling including decreased extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition and increased vascularization and innervation.
    [Cell Reports]

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    Tissue-Like Environments Shape Functional Interactions of HIV-1 with Immature Dendritic Cells

    Investigators found that, compared to standard 2D suspension cultures, 3D collagen as tissue-like environment altered immature dendritic cells properties and their response to HIV-1 infection.
    [EMBO Reports]

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    Enhanced Wound-Healing Efficacy of Electrospun Mesoporous Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticle-Loaded Chitosan Nanofiber Developed Using Pluronic F127

    Alongside the evaluation of cytocompatibility through in vitro cell viability assay, the wound healing efficacy was also determined in full-thickness skin wounds in a rat model for 15 days.
    [International Journal of Biological Macromolecules]

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    A Tumor Microenvironment Model of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Enables Drug Sensitivity Testing to Guide Precision Medicine

    The authors reported on a model that has reasonable associated costs, could be handled in a regularly equipped cell lab, and was compatible with ex vivo functional assays including drug sensitivity screens.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    Distinct Contact Guidance Mechanisms in Single Endothelial Cells and in Monolayers

    Culturing single endothelial cells on microgrooved substrates that constitute an idealized mimic of anisotropic basement membrane topography elicited a strong, groove depth-dependent contact guidance response.
    [Advanced Materials Interfaces]

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    Age-Associated Differences in the Human Lung Extracellular Matrix

    Scientists identified and localized age‑associated ECM differences in human lung using comprehensive transcriptomic, proteomic, and immunohistochemical analyses.
    [American Journal Of Physiology-Lung Cellular And Molecular Physiology]

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    An Integrated Signature of Extracellular Matrix Proteins and a Diastolic Function Imaging Parameter Predicts Post-MI Long-Term Outcomes

    In a prospective acute myocardial infarction cohort in New Zealand, investigators measured plasma proteins and lipids 30 days after hospital discharge and inferred a unified partial correlation network with echocardiographic variables and established clinical biomarkers.
    [Frontiers In Cardiovascular Medicine]

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    Release Systems Based on Self-Assembling RADA16-I Hydrogels with a Signal Sequence Which Improves Wound Healing Processes

    The authors demonstrated that the physicochemical properties of the designed hybrids were similar to those of the original RADA16-I. The materials behaved as expected, leaving the active motif free when treated with elastase.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Qualitative Study on Diabetic Cutaneous Wound Healing with Radiation Crosslinked Bilayer Collagen Scaffold in Rat Model

    Researchers developed ECM substitution to remodel the mechanical properties of diabetic cutaneous wounds and thus accelerate diabetic wound healing.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    REVIEWS

    Extracellular Matrix Remodeling Facilitates Obesity-Associated Cancer Progression

    The ECM was tightly regulated and dynamically remodeled; this is an important factor for adipose tissue (AT) expansion and can result in modifications to the physical shape and biological function of AT.
    [Trends In Cell Biology]

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    Heterogeneity of Cancer-Associated Fibroblasts in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Opportunities and Challenges

    The authors describe the various origin and heterogeneous activation mechanisms of cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs), and biological heterogeneity of CAFs in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma is also included.
    [Cell Death Discovery]

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    Strategies to Overcome Myeloid Cell Induced Immune Suppression in the Tumor Microenvironment

    Scientists cover current strategies targeting myeloid suppressor cells in the tumor microenvironment to enhance anti-tumoral immunity, including strategies that target chemokine receptors to deplete selected immune suppressive myeloid cells and relieve the inhibition imposed on the effector arms of adaptive immunity.
    [Frontiers In Oncology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Fox Chase Cancer Center’s Edna ‘Eti’ Cukierman Appointed Chair-Elect of the American Association for Cancer Research’s Tumor Microenvironment Working Group

    Dr. Edna Cukierman has been appointed chair-elect of the American Association for Cancer Research’s (AACR) Tumor Microenvironment Working Group at the AACR Annual Meeting 2023, which is being held April 14-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.
    [Fox Chase Cancer Center]

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