Project description:Immortal spheroids were generated from fetal mouse intestine using the culture system developed to culture organoids from adult intestinal epithelium. Spheroids are made of a monostratified polarized epithelium displaying a poorly differentiated intestinal phenotype. The proportion of spheroids generated from intestinal explants progressively decreases from fetal to postnatal period, with a corresponding increase in production of organoids. Spheroid cells show indefinite self-renewing properties but exhibit a transcriptome strikingly different from that of adult intestinal stem cells reminiscent of incompletely caudalized progenitors. The receptor Lgr4, but not Lgr5, is essential for their growth. Trop2/Tacstd2 and Cnx43/Gja1, two markers highly enriched in spheroids, are expressed throughout the E14 intestinal epithelium. Comparison of in utero and neonatal lineage tracing using Cnx43-CreER and Lgr5-CreERT2 mice identified spheroid-generating cells as developmental progenitors involved in generation of the prenatal intestinal epithelium. Ex vivo, spheroid cells have the potential to differentiate into organoids, thus qualifying them as a new type of intestinal stem-like cells. Two-channel microarray experiments were performed from spheroid/organoid pairs isolated each from a given embryo. Following initial seeding of small intestine from a given embryo/mouse (at E16, E18 or P0), spheroids and organoids were selectively picked up for each animal and replated for 3 passages to reach sample homogeneity. Hybridization was performed on the 4 independent pairs with dye-swap.
Project description:Immortal spheroids were generated from fetal mouse intestine using the culture system developed to culture organoids from adult intestinal epithelium. Spheroids are made of a monostratified polarized epithelium displaying a poorly differentiated intestinal phenotype. The proportion of spheroids generated from intestinal explants progressively decreases from fetal to postnatal period, with a corresponding increase in production of organoids. Spheroid cells show indefinite self-renewing properties but exhibit a transcriptome strikingly different from that of adult intestinal stem cells reminiscent of incompletely caudalized progenitors. The receptor Lgr4, but not Lgr5, is essential for their growth. Trop2/Tacstd2 and Cnx43/Gja1, two markers highly enriched in spheroids, are expressed throughout the E14 intestinal epithelium. Comparison of in utero and neonatal lineage tracing using Cnx43-CreER and Lgr5-CreERT2 mice identified spheroid-generating cells as developmental progenitors involved in generation of the prenatal intestinal epithelium. Ex vivo, spheroid cells have the potential to differentiate into organoids, thus qualifying them as a new type of intestinal stem-like cells.
Project description:Collagenase/dispase treatment of intestinal tissue from adult mice generates cells growing in matrigel as immortal cystic spheroids in addition to differentiated organoids. Contrary to classical EDTA-derived organoids, these spheroids display poor intestinal differentiation and are independent of Rspondin/Noggin/EGF for growth. Their transcriptome resembles strikingly that of fetal intestinal spheroids, with downregulation of crypt base columnar cell (CBC) markers (Lgr5, Ascl2, Smoc2, Olfm4). In addition, they display upregulation of inflammatory and mesenchymal genetic programs, together with robust expression of YAP target genes. Lineage tracing, cell-sorting and single cell RNA sequencing experiments demonstrate that adult spheroid-generating cells belong to a hitherto undescribed developmental lineage, independent of Lgr5+ve CBCs, and are involved in regeneration of the epithelium following CBC ablation
Project description:Collagenase/dispase (CD fraction) treatment of intestinal tissue from adult mice generates cells growing in matrigel as immortal cystic spheroids in addition to differentiated organoids. Contrary to classical EDTA-derived organoids, these spheroids display poor intestinal differentiation and are independent of Rspondin/Noggin/EGF for growth. Their transcriptome resembles strikingly that of fetal intestinal spheroids, with downregulation of crypt base columnar cell (CBC) markers (Lgr5, Ascl2, Smoc2, Olfm4). In addition, they display upregulation of inflammatory and mesenchymal genetic programs, together with robust expression of YAP target genes. Lineage tracing, cell-sorting and single cell RNA sequencing experiments demonstrate that adult spheroid-generating cells belong to a hitherto undescribed developmental lineage, independent of Lgr5+ve CBCs, and are involved in regeneration of the epithelium following CBC ablation
Project description:Collagenase/dispase (CD fraction) treatment of intestinal tissue from adult mice generates cells growing in matrigel as immortal cystic spheroids in addition to differentiated organoids. Contrary to classical EDTA-derived organoids, these spheroids display poor intestinal differentiation and are independent of Rspondin/Noggin/EGF for growth. Their transcriptome resembles strikingly that of fetal intestinal spheroids, with downregulation of crypt base columnar cell (CBC) markers (Lgr5, Ascl2, Smoc2, Olfm4). In addition, they display upregulation of inflammatory and mesenchymal genetic programs, together with robust expression of YAP target genes. Lineage tracing, cell-sorting and single cell RNA sequencing experiments demonstrate that adult spheroid-generating cells belong to a hitherto undescribed developmental lineage, independent of Lgr5+ve CBCs, and are involved in regeneration of the epithelium following CBC ablation
Project description:Collagenase/dispase treatment of intestinal tissue from adult mice generates cells growing in matrigel as immortal cystic spheroids in addition to differentiated organoids. Contrary to classical EDTA-derived organoids, these spheroids display poor intestinal differentiation and are independent of Rspondin/Noggin/EGF for growth. Their transcriptome resembles strikingly that of fetal intestinal spheroids, with downregulation of crypt base columnar cell (CBC) markers (Lgr5, Ascl2, Smoc2, Olfm4). In addition, they display upregulation of inflammatory and mesenchymal genetic programs, together with robust expression of YAP target genes. Lineage tracing, cell-sorting and single cell RNA sequencing experiments demonstrate that adult spheroid-generating cells belong to a hitherto undescribed developmental lineage, independent of Lgr5+ve CBCs, and are involved in regeneration of the epithelium following CBC ablation
Project description:Collagenase/dispase treatment of intestinal tissue from adult mice generates cells growing in matrigel as immortal cystic spheroids in addition to differentiated organoids. Contrary to classical EDTA-derived organoids, these spheroids display poor intestinal differentiation and are independent of Rspondin/Noggin/EGF for growth. Their transcriptome resembles strikingly that of fetal intestinal spheroids, with downregulation of crypt base columnar cell (CBC) markers (Lgr5, Ascl2, Smoc2, Olfm4). In addition, they display upregulation of inflammatory and mesenchymal genetic programs, together with robust expression of YAP target genes. Lineage tracing, cell-sorting and single cell RNA sequencing experiments demonstrate that adult spheroid-generating cells belong to a hitherto undescribed developmental lineage, independent of Lgr5+ve CBCs, and are involved in regeneration of the epithelium following CBC ablation
Project description:In adult stomach, Lgr5 is a marker of epithelial glandular stem cells that grow in the three dimensional ex vivo culture system as organoids. However, little is known about the markers that characterize fetal progenitors before cytodifferentiation and their potential involvement in regenerative processes in adults. Using the ex vivo culture system, we isolated epithelial progenitors from the fetal stomach. These cells generated stable undifferentiated immortal spheroids showing lower growth factor requirements as compared to the adult-type gastric Lgr5-expressing organoids. Although very similar in their gene expression profiles, cultured fetal gastric and intestinal spheroids differentially expressed Sox2/Cdx2 genes involved in regional pre-patterning. Accordingly, gastric but not intestinal spheroids, spontaneously converted into the cell lineages of the adult glandular stomach ex vivo. In vivo, the Trop2 marker enriched in the fetal gastric spheroids was transiently expressed in the gastric epithelium before cytodifferentiation while it remained barely detectable under glandular homeostasis in adults. However, upon specific ablation of the Lgr5 stem cell pool, highly proliferative Trop2-expressing cells rapidly emerged in the adult epithelium, qualifying Trop2 as a marker of Lgr5-independent gastric stem cells. Together, these data indicate that the Trop2 receptor identifies gastric fetal progenitors and adult stem/progenitor cells involved in regeneration of glandular stomach.
Project description:To follow the changes in the transcriptional programs accompanying the specification of the embryonic Lgr5+ cells we sequenced whole transcriptomes of embryonic intestinal epithelium progenitors (at E13.5 and E15.5). EpCAM positive embryonic gut epithelium was isolated from dissected small intestines using fluorescence activated cell sorting (FACS). Lgr5+ progenitors were purified on the basis of GFP fluorescence from Lgr5GFP-Cre-ERT mice (Barker et al. 2007). Double positive embryonic progenitors were isolated by FACS based on GFP and tdTomato fluorescence.