Note: For elastic hydrogel micro- and nano-patterning we adopted an “intermediate substrate” technique in which biotin-conjugated protein micro- and nano-patterns were initially printed on “intermediate” cover-glass, then transferred onto hydrogels by cross-linking patterned proteins’ biotin tags to streptavidin-conjugated polyacrylamide (PAA) (Tang et al., 2012 (link)).
Note: To print nano-grids composed of two sets of orthogonally intersecting parallel nanolines, constituted of two different proteins of interest, we use Alexa Fluor™ 568 fluorophore- and biotin-prelabeled anti-collagen rabbit pAb, and Alexa Fluor™ 488 fluorophore- and biotin-prelabeled Fab fragments of anti-Fcγ antibody (Jackson Immunoresearch).