A: representative photographs of the 4 Sox9-EGFP cell fractions www.selleckchem.com/products/mek162.html isolated by FACS demonstrate that they express appropriate intensities of … Organoid Culture on FACS Isolated Cells Organoid culture was carried out following methods originally described in Sato et al. (55) and adapted to IEC isolated from Sox9-EGFP mice by Gracz and colleagues (21). Briefly, sorted Sox9-EGFP cells (Sox9-EGFP Negative, Sox9-EGFP Sublow, Sox9-EGFP Low, and Sox9-EGFP High cells) from nonirradiated mice or mice at 5 days after irradiation were immediately resuspended at a density of 20,000 cells in 50 ��l per well (24-well plate) in Matrigel (BD Biosciences, San Jose, CA) supplemented with 1 ��M Jagged-1 peptide (AnaSpec, San Jose, CA), 50 ng/ml EGF (R&D, Minneapolis, MN), 100 ng/ml Noggin (PeproTech, Rocky Hill, NJ), and 1 ��g/ml R-Spondin 1 (R&D).
After total polymerization, each formed droplet was overlaid with 500 ��l Advanced DMEM/F12 containing N2 supplement (Invitrogen), B27 supplement minus vitamin A (Invitrogen), 10 mM HEPES (Invitrogen), and 10 ��M Y27632 (Sigma). Growth factors were added every other day at the same initial concentrations, except R-Spondin 1 was reduced to 500 ng/ml following the initial plating. Medium was replaced every 4 days. Y27632 was withdrawn from medium after 4 days of culture. Number of organoids was counted every other day for 12 days by an observer blinded to treatment groups and using previously reported methods (21, 55). Representative photographs of organoids were collected via an inverted microscope (Olympus IX81) fitted with a digital camera (ORCA-03G, Hamamatsu, Japan).
The objective lens used was ��10 with numerical aperture of 0.3 (U Plan FLN, Olympus, Japan). Statistical Analyses Data were expressed as means �� SE. Unpaired t-test, Mann-Whitney test, one-way ANOVA or two-way ANOVA were performed to compare different groups as indicated in the results or figure legends. A P value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Microarray on FACS Isolated Cells Gene expression analysis was performed by using Agilent Mouse GE 4 �� 44K v2 microarray (Agilent; Santa Clara, CA). Total RNA was extracted from FACS-isolated Sox9-EGFP Negative, Sublow, Low, and High cells obtained from jejunum of nonirradiated controls or mice at 5 days postirradiation. Total RNA was also extracted from the corresponding nonsorted total IEC preparation from nonirradiated mice.
Four independent nonirradiated mice were initially studied to define specific gene signatures of the four Sox9-EGFP cell types. To study transcriptomic changes induced by irradiation in Sox9-EGFP cells, cells from three irradiated mice and from three AV-951 independent nonirradiated mice processed in parallel and used as controls to set the gates during FACS isolation were analyzed.