Biomaterial transfer is used in all biological fields to manipulate cell function and dissect molecular and cellular mechanisms in physiologic and pathologic settings. New, enabling technologies are required to overcome size limitations inherent in all current delivery methods to allow the transfer of large cargo, such as live pathogens, whole chromosomes, and (eventually) bioengineered replacement components, such as genetically modified mitochondria, for new-age therapies. As Nicole Rusk, senior editor Nature Methods, recently opined """"""""surprisingly, no methods for efficiently bringing impermeant large molecules into living cells exist (Nat Methods 8:44, 2011). This proposal is focused on our recently developed cargo transfer technology, which is called the photothermal nanoblade, to deliver whole human chromosomes into human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in order to examine chromosome reprogramming. These transferred chromosomes will be analyzed for epigenetic reprogramming within the hPSC nucleus using standard and cutting-edge molecular techniques and is supported by a strong institutional bioinformatics infrastructure. This proposal also aims to develop a microfluidics-integrated photothermal nanoblade platform for next-generation high- throughput and near simultaneous delivery of large cargo into more than 10,000 cells in seconds. Achieving these goals will provide custom engineered hPSCs for biological investigations, an assessment of the chromosome reprogramming capability of federally-registered H1 and H9 human embryonic stem cells (hESCs), and an advanced yet simple to use platform to overcome potential biological obstacles that, if they exist, would limit success due to an insufficient throughput, should chromosome integration be a low frequency event, which is currently not known.

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Biomaterial transfer is used in all biological fields to manipulate cell function and dissect molecular and cellular mechanisms in physiologic and pathologic settings. New, enabling technologies are required to overcome size limitations inherent in all current delivery methods to allow the transfer of large cargo for new-age therapies. Our R21 proposal is to use a novel photothermal nanoblade system (Wu, et al., in press, Analytical Chemistry, 2011- see paper in appendix) to deliver whole human chromosomes into pluripotent human stem cells, a currently impossible task, in order to examine whole chromosome epigenetic reprogramming.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)
Type
Exploratory/Developmental Grants (R21)
Project #
5R21EB014456-02
Application #
8399012
Study Section
Instrumentation and Systems Development Study Section (ISD)
Program Officer
Tucker, Jessica
Project Start
2011-12-15
Project End
2014-11-30
Budget Start
2012-12-01
Budget End
2014-11-30
Support Year
2
Fiscal Year
2013
Total Cost
$169,078
Indirect Cost
$51,203
Name
University of California Los Angeles
Department
Engineering (All Types)
Type
Schools of Engineering
DUNS #
092530369
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90095
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Lin, Ming-Yu; Wu, Yi-Chien; Lee, Ji-Ann et al. (2016) Intracellular Delivery by Shape Anisotropic Magnetic Particle-Induced Cell Membrane Cuts. J Lab Autom 21:548-56
Wu, Ting-Hsiang; Wu, Yi-Chien; Sagullo, Enrico et al. (2015) Direct Nuclear Delivery of DNA by Photothermal Nanoblade. J Lab Autom 20:659-62
Wu, Yi-Chien; Wu, Ting-Hsiang; Clemens, Daniel L et al. (2015) Massively parallel delivery of large cargo into mammalian cells with light pulses. Nat Methods 12:439-44
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Teh, Boon Eng; French, Christopher Todd; Chen, Yahua et al. (2014) Type three secretion system-mediated escape of Burkholderia pseudomallei into the host cytosol is critical for the activation of NF?B. BMC Microbiol 14:115
Yamane, Daisuke; Wu, Yi-Chien; Wu, Ting-Hsiang et al. (2014) Electrical impedance monitoring of photothermal porated mammalian cells. J Lab Autom 19:50-9
Chen, Yue; Wu, Ting-Hsiang; Kung, Yu-Chun et al. (2013) 3D pulsed laser-triggered high-speed microfluidic fluorescence-activated cell sorter. Analyst 138:7308-15
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