Human embryonic lung self-renewal growth medium (protocol 4.2)
Human embryonic lung self-renewal growth medium (protocol 4.2) + 10 μM Rho Kinase inhibitor Y27632 (Sigma-Aldrich, Y0503)
Appropriate lentivirus stocks
Biological safety risk assessments for lentivirus use and appropriate containment level laboratory facilities.
Lentiviral transduction of organoids
Day 1
Prepare single cells
Culture organoids to reach 80-90% confluence.
Remove the medium from the organoid culture.
Wash the well briefly with 1x PBS.
Remove the PBS and add 500 μl of pre-warmed TrypLE express enzyme.
Triturate (pipette up and down 10 times) with P1000 pipette to break up the organoids and incubate at 37°C for 5 minutes.
Triturate by pipetting up and down with P200 pipette about 20 times.
Check that single cells have been obtained (if not, incubate a further 2-5 minutes at 37°C) and add 1 ml cold Advanced DMEM/F12 +++ to stop the reaction.
Filter through a 30 μm cell strainer.
Wash cell strainer with 2 ml of Advanced DMEM/F12 +++ and count the cell number.
Prepare aliquots of ~200,000 cells for each transduction. Pellet cells at 200-500 rcf for 5 minutes and resuspend in 500 μl self-renewal medium + 10 μM Rho Kinase inhibitor (Y27632).
Keep cells on ice until ready to transduce.
Lentivirus transduction
Mix lentivirus (approx. XX MOI) with organoids in 1 well of a 24 well plate.
Incubate at 37°C for 5-6 hours to overnight.
Seeding the transduced cells
Collect the transduced organoid cells into 1.5 ml tubes.
Cells may have attached to the plastic. In this case add pre-warmed TypLE and incubate at 37°C for 2 minutes to detach.
Fill the tubes with 1x PBS, spin 200-500 rcf for 5 minutes and discard PBS.
Repeat wash step 13 two more times to remove any excess lentiviral particles.
Resuspend the cells from each transduction in 100 μl matrigel and seed into two wells of a 24 well plate and incubate at 37°C 10-15 minutes to allow matrigel to solidify.
Add 600 μl human embryonic lung self-renewal growth medium + 10 μM Rho Kinase inhibitor (Y27632)..
After 2-3 days change the medium to human embryonic lung self-renewal growth medium.
Day 4
20. Typically start drug selection treatment, or perform flow cytometry for fluorescent protein expression, to isolate the transduced organoids.
Media protocol:
Advanced DMEM/F12 +++ medium
Store at 4 ˚C for 4 weeks
Advanced DMEM/F12
500 ml
Glutamax 100x
5 ml
Hepes 1M
5 ml
PenStrep 100x
ml
Human embryonic lung self-renewing medium, 20ml
Store at 4 ˚C for 4 weeks
Advanced DMEM/F12 +++
17.4 ml
B27 supplement (50x)
400 µl
N2 supplement (100x)
200 µl
n-Acetylcysteine (500 mM)
50 µl
mouse EGF (500 µg/ml)
10 µl
mouse Noggin (100 µg/ml)
20 µl
R-Spondin conditioned medium
1 ml
FGF10 (100 µg/ml) 20 µl
FGF7 (50 µg/ml) 40 µl
CHIR99021 (10 mM) 6 µl
SB43152 (10 mM) 20 µl
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How to cite:
Readers should cite both the Bio-protocol preprint and the original research article where this protocol was used:
Sun, D and Rawlins, E(2022). Lentivirus infection of organoids to test infection efficiency. Bio-protocol Preprint. bio-protocol.org/prep1966.
Sun, D., Evans, L., Perrone, F., Sokleva, V., Lim, K., Rezakhani, S., Lutolf, M., Zilbauer, M. and Rawlins, E. L.(2021). A functional genetic toolbox for human tissue-derived organoids. eLife. DOI: 10.7554/eLife.67886
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