To begin, thaw the enzymatic cell digestion reagent at 37 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes. Under a brightfield microscope at 10x magnification, observe the differentiated three-dimensional human intestinal organoids to ensure cell health. Replace the media from the wells of a 24-well plate containing differentiated organoids with 500 microliters of cold cell recovery solution.
Pipette up and down to release the cells from the basement membrane. Transfer the cell suspension to a 1.5-milliliter microcentrifuge tube. Incubate the tube on ice for 10 minutes, pipetting up and and down every five minutes.
Centrifuge the cell suspension at 400 g for three minutes at four degrees Celsius. Remove the supernatant from the tube without disturbing the pellet. Resuspend the pellet in 500 microliters of prewarmed enzymatic cell digestion reagent, pipetting up and down 10 times.
Place the organoids for 30 minutes at 37 degrees Celsius in a carbon dioxide incubator. Every 10 minutes, pipette the entire volume 10 times using a P1000 pipette to help dissociate the cells. Centrifuge the cell suspension at 400 g for three minutes at four degrees Celsius, and resuspend the pellet in one milliliter of differentiation media.
Rapidly pipette the cells up and down 50 times on ice to dissociate organoids into single cells. Filter the entire volume through a 70 micron tip strainer and collect the eluate in a fresh 1.5-milliliter tube. Then filter the eluate obtained through a 70 micron strainer on a 40 micron tip strainer.
Add five microliters of 0.4%Trypan Blue to five microliters of cell suspension, and count viable single cells using Trypan Blue Exclusion. Dilute the sample with cell culture media to obtain 1000 cells per microliter. A total of 4, 402 single cells were isolated from differentiated ileal three-dimensional human intestinal organoids, representing expected cell types, including absorptive enterocytes and secretory cells.
