Summary: We have used single-cell transcriptomics to characterize gene expression in different cell populations, and to study individual cell dynamics and lineage trajectories in organoid cell differentiation
Overall Design: We have used DropSeq to perform single cell sequencing of 8 organoid samples that were harvested between 19-21 days.
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Extract Protocol: | Organoids were grown on a 6 well tissue culture dish for 18-30 days, washed twice with ice-cold PBS, scraped off and transferred to 1 ml cold active protease solution (PBS, 5 mg of Bacillus Licheniformis protease [Sigma, #P5380], 5 mM CaCl2, 20 U DNAse I [Roche, #4716728001]). Organoid tissue was incubated in a 2 ml reaction tube for 10-25 min on a slow moving shaker (nutator) in a coldroom at 4°C with repeated trituration steps for 10 seconds every 5 minutes. Single cell dissociation was confirmed with a hemocytometer under the microscope. The dissociation was stopped with 1 ml ice cold PBS supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS). Afterwards the cells were immediately pelleted at 300x g for 5 min at 4°C. Subsequently, the supernatant was discarded and cells were suspended in 2 ml PBS/10%FBS and pelleted again at 300x g for 5 min at 4°C. Then cells were suspended in PBS/0.04%BSA and pelleted again (300x g for 5 min at 4°C), suspended in 1 ml PBS/0.04%BSA, and passed through a 30 µM filter mesh (Miltenyi MACS smart strainer). Viability was then investigated with the Trypan-blue exclusion test and cell concentration was determined with a hemocytometer and adjusted to 200,000 cells/ml for Drop-seq.Uniformly dispersed 1 nl-sized droplets were generated using self-built polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microfluidic co-flow devices on the basis of the AutoCAD design provided by the McCarroll group. The devices were treated with a water repellant solution (Aquapel) to create a hydrophobic channel surface. Drop-Seq runs followed closely the procedure published by Macosko et al. (Online Dropseq protocol v. 3.1 http://mccarrolllab.com/dropseq/). Barcoded beads (ChemGenes Corp., Wilmington, MA), suspended in lysis buffer, were co-flown with a single cell suspension and a droplet generation mineral oil (QX200, Bio-Rad Laboratories). Resulting droplets were collected in a 50 ml tube and immediately disrupted after adding 30 ml high-salt saline-sodium citrate buffer (6xSSC) and 1 ml perfluoro-octanol. Subsequently, captured mRNA’s were reverse transcribed for 2 hours using 2,000 U of the Maxima H Minus Reverse Transcriptase (ThermoFisher) followed by an exonuclease treatment for 45 minutes to remove unextended primers. After two washing steps with 6xSSC buffer about 70,000 remaining beads (60% of input beads) were aliquoted (5,000 beads per 50 µl reaction) and PCR-amplified (5 cycles at 65˚C and 12 cycles at 67˚C annealing temperature). Aliquots of each PCR reaction were pooled and double-purified using 0.5x volume of Agencourt AMPure XP beads (# A63881, Beckman Coulter) and finally eluted in 10 µl EB buffer. Quality and quantity of the amplified cDNAs were analyzed on a BioAnalyzer High Sensitivity DNA Chip (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). About 600 pg cDNA was fragmented and amplified (17 cycles) to generate a next-generation sequencing library by using the Nextera XT DNA sample preparation kit (Illumina). |
Library Construction Protocol: | The libraries were purified, quantified (Agilent High sensitivity DNA chip), and then sequenced (paired end 26x115 bases) on an Illumina HiSeq2500 platform (Rapid mode). Custom primer (5’-GCCTGTCCGCGGAAGCAGTGGTATCAACGCAGAGTAC-3’) was used for the first sequence read to identify all different cell barcodes und unique molecular identifier (UMI) sequences. |
Molecule Type: | poly(A)+ RNA |
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Library Layout: | PAIRED |
Library Strand: | Forward |
Platform: | ILLUMINA |
Instrument Model: | Illumina HiSeq 2000 |
Strand-Specific: | Specific |
Data Resource | GEN Sample ID | GEN Dataset ID | Project ID | BioProject ID | Sample ID | Sample Name | BioSample ID | Sample Accession | Experiment Accession | Release Date | Submission Date | Update Date | Species | Race | Ethnicity | Age | Age Unit | Gender | Source Name | Tissue | Cell Type | Cell Subtype | Cell Line | Disease | Disease State | Development Stage | Mutation | Phenotype | Case Detail | Control Detail | Growth Protocol | Treatment Protocol | Extract Protocol | Library Construction Protocol | Molecule Type | Library Layout | Strand-Specific | Library Strand | Spike-In | Strategy | Platform | Instrument Model | Cell Number | Reads Number | Gbases | AvgSpotLen1 | AvgSpotLen2 | Uniq Mapping Rate | Multiple Mapping Rate | Coverage Rate |
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