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Human Intestinal Organoids Maintain Self-Renewal Capacity and Cellular Diversity in Niche-Inspired Culture Condition

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Fujii, Masayuki, Matano, Mami, Toshimitsu, Kohta, Takano, Ai, Mikami, Yohei, Nishikori, Shingo, Sugimoto, Shinya, Sato, Toshiro·2018·Cell Stem Cell

Abstract

Cellular diversity that shapes tissue architecture and function is governed by multiple niche signals. Nonetheless, maintaining cellular diversity in human intestinal organoids has been challenging. Based on niche ligands present in the natural stem cell milieu, we establish a refined organoid culture condition for intestinal epithelia that allows human intestinal organoids to concurrently undergo multi-differentiation and self-renewal. High-throughput screening reveals that the combination of insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF-2) enhances the clonogenic capacity and CRISPR-genome engineering efficiency of human intestinal stem cells. The combination equally enables long-term culture of a range of intestinal organoids, including rat small intestinal organoids. Droplet-based single-cell RNA sequencing further illustrates the conservation of the native cellular diversity in human small intestinal organoids cultured with the refined condition. The modified culture protocol outperforms the conventional method and offers a viable strategy for modeling human intestinal tissues and diseases in an in vivo relevant context.

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  • A crypt-villus-like architecture is considered an important indicator that intestinal organoid establishment succeeded, reflecting differentiation and maturation.

    “Classical crypt-villus-like architecture is regarded as an important symbol of the successful organoid establishment, exhibiting the proper branching morphology with robust multicellular composition and location reflecting the organoids differentiation and maturation level118,119.”

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  • scRNA-seq analysis of human intestinal and brain organoids used random forest classifiers to identify the cell types in their organoid cultures.

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Authors
Fujii, M., Matano, M., Toshimitsu, K., Takano, A., Mikami, Y., Nishikori, S., Sugimoto, S., & Sato, T.
Affiliations
  • Keio University (JP)
  • Otsuka (Japan) (JP)
Corresponding author
Sato, Toshiro
Venue
Cell Stem Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2018-12
Volume
23
Issue
6
Pages
787-793.e6
ISSN
  • 1875-9777 (ISSN-L)
  • 1934-5909
OpenAlex
W2904971405
Cited by
558
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 77 · 2025: 94 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 76 · 2022: 83 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 70 · 2019: 14
FWCI
14.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell stem cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (18cm0106206h0003)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Cells and Metastasis
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Digestive system and related health
Keywords
intestinal organoids, self-renewal, cellular diversity, intestinal stem cells, insulin-like growth factor I, FGF2, clonogenicity, CRISPR gene editing, small intestinal organoids, single-cell RNA sequencing, tissue engineering
MeSH terms
Cell Self Renewal, Animals, Cells, Cultured, Humans, Intestines, Male, Organoids, Rats, Inbred Lew, Cell Culture Techniques, Rats, Stem Cell Niche

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