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Aging increases cell-to-cell transcriptional variability upon immune stimulation.
Science 355, 1433-1436 (2017)
Aging is characterized by progressive loss of physiological and cellular functions, but the molecular basis of this decline remains unclear. We explored how aging affects transcriptional dynamics using single-cell RNA sequencing of unstimulated and stimulated naïve and effector memory CD4 T cells from young and old mice from two divergent species. In young animals, immunological activation drives a conserved transcriptomic switch, resulting in tightly controlled gene expression characterized by a strong up-regulation of a core activation program, coupled with a decrease in cell-to-cell variability. Aging perturbed the activation of this core program and increased expression heterogeneity across populations of cells in both species. These discoveries suggest that increased cell-to-cell transcriptional variability will be a hallmark feature of aging across most, if not all, mammalian tissues.
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Publikationstyp
Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp
Review
ISSN (print) / ISBN
0036-8075
e-ISSN
1095-9203
Zeitschrift
Science
Quellenangaben
Band: 355,
Heft: 6332,
Seiten: 1433-1436
Verlag
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Nichtpatentliteratur
Publikationen
Begutachtungsstatus
Peer reviewed
Institut(e)
Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC)