Surface‐Nucleated Assembly of Fibrillar Extracellular Matrices

Abstract

Synthetic surfaces, presenting a covalently immobilized oligopeptide sequence (FN13) from the self-assembly domain of fibronectin (FN), nucleate and template the assembly of robust fibrillar extracellular matrices. These matrices contain fibronectin and type I collagen (COL), as shown in the Figure, and exhibit increased cell-proliferation rates. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2089/2005/c0959_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.