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Nice method paper. Just a short question. If you want to live the hydrogels without any ECM coating, how should it be the procedure? I guess NHS step (and of course ECM protein coating) is omitted, but then, how do the cells feel in this case? Please answer to frodriguez@cbm.uam.es
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Wonderful job!!!! Can you please tell us how can we determine the concentration of fibronectin coated on the soft and hard substrate. How do we know that the fibronectin concentration is same on both the substrates? Thank you very much. I appreciate your time and help.
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There are two things you can do. The first is to use a fluorescently labeled FN and monitor fluorescence on soft and stiff gels, or use anti-FN and do IF. Our collaborator, Paul Janmey has done the former (see Byfield et al. Biophysical J. 96: 5095-5102). It is fairly well established by other labs that the binding of FN is independent of gel stiffness.
Alternatively, we have used different concentrations of FN and shown that the different cellular morphologies (you could use any read-out of interest) seen on stiff and soft gels is not affected by the conc of FN used for crosslinking.
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It's a very useful paper for me, especially for the simple and clear way to coat ECM proteins onto hydrogels. I want to know why the NHS solution need to be prepared in toluene? what is the function of toluene in this protocol? Since the solubility of NHS in water is bigger than in toluene.
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It's a very useful paper for me, especially for the simple and clear way to coat ECM proteins onto hydrogels. I want to know why the NHS solution need to be prepared in toluene? what is the function of toluene in this protocol? Since the solubility of NHS in water is bigger than in toluene.
Please answer to frodriguez@cbm.uam.es
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