Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Heterogeneity and transcriptome changes of human CD8+ T cells across nine decades of life

  • Jian Lu,
  • Raheel Ahmad,
  • Thomas Nguyen,
  • Jeffrey Cifello,
  • Humza Hemani,
  • Jiangyuan Li,
  • Jinguo Chen,
  • Siyi Li,
  • Jing Wang,
  • Achouak Achour,
  • Joseph Chen,
  • Meagan Colie,
  • Ana Lustig,
  • Christopher Dunn,
  • Linda Zukley,
  • Chee W. Chia,
  • Irina Burd,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Luigi Ferrucci,
  • Nan-ping Weng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32869-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The characterisation of T cells during aging is important to predict functional outcomes in vaccination or infection. Here the authors use flow cytometry and scRNA sequencing to transcriptionally age CD8 T cells and then use a machine learning model to interpret cell age from transcriptional profiles.