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Photoinduced in situ formation of various F-actin assemblies with a photoresponsive polycation

✍ Scribed by Manami Misu; Hidemitsu Furukawa; Hyuck-Joon Kwon; Kazuhiro Shikinaka; Akira Kakugo; Toshifumi Satoh; Yoshihito Osada; Jian Ping Gong

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
368 KB
Volume
89A
Category
Article
ISSN
1549-3296

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Abstract

We developed a novel in situ method for the control of F‐actin assembly by using a synthetic photoresponsive polycation. The photoresponsive polycation mainly comprises a water‐soluble cationic monomer and also contains a small amount of the monomer of a triphenylmethane leucohydroxide derivative (20 mol %), which is a well‐known photochromic molecule that can be cationized in aqueous solution by ultra violet (UV) irradiation, thereby causing an increase in the total charge on the photoresponsive polycation. Thus, by exposure to UV radiation in aqueous solution, F‐actin and the photoresponsive polycation start assembling into F‐actin/photoresponsive polycation complexes of various morphologies such as bundles, coils, and networks, depending upon the concentrations of both the F‐actin and salt. Further, localized UV irradiation can be applied in order to control the local formation of F‐actin/photoresponsive polycation complexes. Thus, this technique provides a novel method for the spatiotemporal control of F‐actin assembly and can be applied to investigate the unknown characteristics of F‐actin. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Biomed Mater Res, 2009

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