Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

An atlas of the aging lung mapped by single cell transcriptomics and deep tissue proteomics

  • Ilias Angelidis,
  • Lukas M. Simon,
  • Isis E. Fernandez,
  • Maximilian Strunz,
  • Christoph H. Mayr,
  • Flavia R. Greiffo,
  • George Tsitsiridis,
  • Meshal Ansari,
  • Elisabeth Graf,
  • Tim-Matthias Strom,
  • Monica Nagendran,
  • Tushar Desai,
  • Oliver Eickelberg,
  • Matthias Mann,
  • Fabian J. Theis,
  • Herbert B. Schiller

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08831-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Aging impacts lung functionality and makes it more susceptible to chronic diseases. Combining proteomics and single cell transcriptomics, the authors chart molecular and cellular changes in the aging mouse lung, discover aging hallmarks, and predict the cellular sources of regulated proteins.