Traditionally, cell culture is performed on planar substrates that poorly mimic the natural environment of cells in vivo. Here we describe a method to produce cell culture substrates with physiologically relevant curved geometries and micropatterned extracellular proteins, allowing systematic investigations into cellular sensing of these extracellular cues.
van der Putten, C., D’Urso, M., Bril, M., Woud, T. E., Bouten, C. V. C., Kurniawan, N. A. Generation of Multicue Cellular Microenvironments by UV-Photopatterning of Three-Dimensional Cell Culture Substrates. J. Vis. Exp. (184), e63988, doi:10.3791/63988 (2022).