Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA; Department of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Immunity. 2023 Dec 12;56(12):2836-2854.e9. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2023.10.013. Epub 2023 Nov 13.
Extensive, large-scale single-cell profiling of healthy human blood at different ages is one of the critical pending tasks required to establish a framework for the systematic understanding of human aging. Here, using single-cell RNA/T cell receptor (TCR)/BCR-seq with protein feature barcoding, we profiled 317 samples from 166 healthy individuals aged 25-85 years old. From this, we generated a dataset from ∼2 million cells that described 55 subpopulations of blood immune cells. Twelve subpopulations changed with age, including the accumulation of GZMKCD8 T cells and HLA-DRCD4 T cells. In contrast to other T cell memory subsets, transcriptionally distinct NKG2CGZMBCD8 T cells counterintuitively decreased with age. Furthermore, we found a concerted age-associated increase in type 2/interleukin (IL)4-expressing memory subpopulations across CD4 and CD8 T cell compartments (CCR4CD8 Tcm and Th2 CD4 Tmem), suggesting a systematic functional shift in immune homeostasis with age. Our work provides novel insights into healthy human aging and a comprehensive annotated resource.
对不同年龄段的健康人类血液进行广泛的、大规模的单细胞分析是建立系统理解人类衰老框架的关键待办任务之一。在这里,我们使用单细胞 RNA/T 细胞受体 (TCR)/BCR 测序和蛋白质特征条形码技术,对 166 名年龄在 25-85 岁的健康个体的 317 个样本进行了分析。由此,我们生成了一个来自约 200 万个细胞的数据集,描述了 55 个血液免疫细胞亚群。有 12 个亚群随年龄而变化,包括 GZMK+CD8+T 细胞和 HLA-DR+CD4+T 细胞的积累。与其他 T 细胞记忆亚群不同,转录上不同的 NKG2C+GZMK+CD8+T 细胞随着年龄的增长而反直觉地减少。此外,我们发现 CD4 和 CD8 T 细胞区室(CCR4+CD8+Tcm 和 Th2 CD4+Tmem)中 2 型/白细胞介素 (IL)4 表达的记忆亚群呈协同性年龄相关增加,这表明免疫稳态随着年龄的增长而发生系统性功能转变。我们的工作为健康人类衰老和全面注释资源提供了新的见解。
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