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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Dec 13.
Published in final edited form as: ACS Biomater Sci Eng. 2021 Nov 15;7(12):5749–5761. doi: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.1c00745

Figure 1.

Figure 1.

Establishment of peptide-decorated HA hydrogels. (A) Chemical structure of HA-SH, HA-AES and MI-peptide. (B) To create the synthetic matrix, peptide is first conjugated to HA through thiol-maleimide reaction, then HA-AES is added to establish the covalent network via thiol-acrylate reaction.