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Series GSE240016 Query DataSets for GSE240016
Status Public on Jun 27, 2024
Title Age-related epithelial defects limit thymic function and regeneration [single cell]
Organism Mus musculus
Experiment type Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
Summary The thymus is essential for establishing adaptive immunity yet undergoes age-related involution that leads to compromised immune responsiveness. The thymus is also extremely sensitive to acute insult and although capable of regeneration, this capacity declines with age for unknown reasons. We applied single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, lineage-tracing and advanced imaging to define age-related changes in non-hematopoietic stromal cells and discovered the emergence of two atypical thymic epithelial cell (TEC) states. These age-associated (aa)TECs formed high-density peri-medullary epithelial clusters that were devoid of thymocytes; an accretion of non-productive thymic tissue that worsened with age, exhibited features of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), and was associated with downregulation of FOXN1. Interaction analysis revealed that the emergence of aaTEC drew tonic signals from other functional TEC populations at baseline acting as a sink for TEC growth factors. Following acute injury, aaTEC expanded substantially, further perturbing trophic regeneration pathways and correlating with defective repair of the involuted thymus. These findings therefore define a unique feature of thymic involution linked to immune aging and could have implications for developing immune boosting therapies in older individuals.
 
Overall design Single cell RNA-seq profiles of CD45- thymic stroma cells from 2-month-old and 18-month-old mice at steady state (day 0; d0) and at days 1 (d1), 4 (d4) and 7 (d7) after sublethal total body irradiation (TBI).
 
Contributor(s) Kousa AI, Jahn L, Zhao K, Flores AE, Acenas II D, Lederer E, Argyropoulos KV, Lemarquis AL, Granadier D, Cooper K, D’Andrea M, Sheridan JM, Tsai J, Sikkema L, Lazrak A, Nichols K, Lee N, Ghale R, Malard F, Andrlova H, Velardi E, Youssef S, Burgos da Silva M, Docampo M, Sharma R, Mazutis L, Wimmer VC, Rogers KL, DeWolf S, Gipson B, Gomes AL, Setty M, Pe'er D, Hale L, Manley NR, Gray DH, van den Brink MR, Dudakov JA
Citation(s) 39112630
Submission date Aug 03, 2023
Last update date Sep 26, 2024
Contact name Anastasia I Kousa
E-mail(s) akousa@coh.org
Organization name City of Hope
Department Hematology / HCT
Lab The Marcel van den Brink Lab
Street address 1500 E Duarte Rd
City Duarte
State/province CA
ZIP/Postal code 91010
Country USA
 
Platforms (1)
GPL24247 Illumina NovaSeq 6000 (Mus musculus)
Samples (29)
GSM7679869 02-mo CD45- thymic stoma cells - steady state rep1 [singe cell]
GSM7679870 02-mo CD45- thymic stoma cells - steady state rep2 [singe cell]
GSM7679871 02-mo CD45- thymic endothelial cells - steady state [singe cell]
This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries:
GSE240020 Age-related epithelial defects limit thymic function and regeneration
Relations
BioProject PRJNA1001924

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Supplementary file Size Download File type/resource
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0+annotation.h5ad 765.7 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0147+annotation.h5ad 2.6 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0147_TEC+annotation.h5ad 572.0 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0147_TEC+loom.h5ad 7.0 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0147_b4QC.h5ad 2.8 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0_EC+annotation.h5ad 53.9 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0_FB+annotation.h5ad 432.3 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0_TEC+annotation.h5ad 272.3 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0_TEC+loom.h5ad 3.0 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d0_TEC_18mo+loom.h5ad 1.7 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d147+annotation.h5ad 1.9 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d147_EC+annotation.h5ad 317.4 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d147_FB+annotation.h5ad 1.0 Gb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_CD45neg_thymic_stroma_d147_TEC+annotation.h5ad 315.4 Mb (ftp)(http) H5AD
GSE240016_RAW.tar 4.5 Gb (http)(custom) TAR (of CSV, H5, MTX, TSV)
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