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Bacterial Nanocellulose and Titania Hybrids: Cytocompatible and Cryopreservable Cell Carriers
20 October 2020

Irene Anton-Sales, Soledad Roig-Sanchez, María Jesús Sánchez-Guisado, María Jesús Sánchez-Guisado, Anna Laromaine*, and Anna Roig*. ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2020, 6, 9, 4893–4902. Publication Date:August 11, 2020. 

https://doi.org/10.1021/acsbiomaterials.0c00492

Carrier-assisted cell transplantation offers new strategies to improve the clinical outcomes of cellular therapies. Bacterial nanocellulose (BC) is an emerging biopolymer that might be of great value in the development of animal-free, customizable, and temperature-stable novel cell carriers. Moreover, BC exhibits a myriad of modification possibilities to incorporate additional functionalities. Here, we have synthesized BC-titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocomposites (BC/TiO2) to evaluate and compare the suitability of not only BC but also a model hybrid nanobiomaterial as cell transplantation supports. This work provides thorough information on the interactions between BC-based substrates and model human cells in terms of cell attachment, morphology, proliferation rate, and metabolic activity. Two methods to partially retrieve the adhered cells are also reported. Both BC and BC/TiO2 substrates are positively evaluated in terms of cytocompatibility and endotoxin content without detecting major differences between BC and BC nanocomposites. Lastly, the effective cryopreservation of cells-BC and cells-BC/TiO2 constructs, yielding high cell viability and intact cell carrier's characteristics after thawing, is demonstrated. Taken together, our results show that both BC and BC/TiO2 enable to integrate the processes of expansion and long-term storage of human cells in transportable, robust and easy to manipulate supports.

Bacterial Nanocellulose and Titania Hybrids: Cytocompatible and Cryopreservable Cell Carriers

 
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Bacterial Nanocellulose and Titania Hybrids: Cytocompatible and Cryopreservable Cell Carriers