Organoid culture systems for prostate epithelial and cancer tissue

Jarno Drost*, Wouter R. Karthaus, Dong Gao, Else Driehuis, Charles L. Sawyers, Yu Chen, Hans Clevers

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Abstract

This protocol describes a strategy for the generation of 3D prostate organoid cultures from healthy mouse and human prostate cells (either bulk or FACS-sorted single luminal and basal cells), metastatic prostate cancer lesions and circulating tumor cells. Organoids derived from healthy material contain the differentiated luminal and basal cell types, whereas organoids derived from prostate cancer tissue mimic the histology of the tumor. We explain how to establish these cultures in the fully defined serum-free conditioned medium that is required to sustain organoid growth. Starting with the plating of digested tissue material, full-grown organoids can usually be obtained in ∼2 weeks. The culture protocol we describe here is currently the only one that allows the growth of both the luminal and basal prostatic epithelial lineages, as well as the growth of advanced prostate cancers. Organoids established using this protocol can be used to study many different aspects of prostate biology, including homeostasis, tumorigenesis and drug discovery.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)347-358
Number of pages12
JournalNature Protocols
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Feb 2016

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