Drawing Sticky Adeno‐Associated Viruses on Surfaces for Spatially Patterned Gene Expression

Abstract

Sticky stuff: A versatile strategy to spatially control gene expressions of mammalian cells is developed. A catecholamine polymer (PEI-C) is used to functionalize surfaces of adeno-associated viruses (AAV). Because of the underwater adhesive property of catechol, AAV/PEI-C hybrid vectors become highly “sticky”, resulting in spatially patterned viral attachment onto substrates by the simple “gene-vector drawing” technique (see picture). Detailed facts of importance to specialist readers are published as ”Supporting Information”. Such documents are peer-reviewed, but not copy-edited or typeset. They are made available as submitted by the authors. 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.