Our overall aim is to understand how cells sense extracellular cues that lead to directed axonal growth. Here, we describe the methodology of Light-Induced Molecular Adsorption of Proteins, used to produce defined micro-patterns of extracellular matrix components in order to study specific events that govern axon outgrowth and pathfinding.
Melero, C., Kolmogorova, A., Atherton, P., Derby, B., Reid, A., Jansen, K., Ballestrem, C. Light-Induced Molecular Adsorption of Proteins Using the PRIMO System for Micro-Patterning to Study Cell Responses to Extracellular Matrix Proteins. J. Vis. Exp. (152), e60092, doi:10.3791/60092 (2019).