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Inflammaging in aged tissues drives remodeling of the CD8+ T cell compartment

GSE304476 Mus musculus (mouse) RNA-seq (gene expression) 15 samples Submitted 2026/03/23 Platform GPL34290
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · mouse · 15 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Mus musculus (mouse)
Samples
15 samples: 15 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groupsGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Inflammaging in aged tissues drives remodeling of the CD8(+) T cell compartmentCell reports · 2026
Summary (written by the submitters)
Aging profoundly reshapes the immune cell landscape, with particularly strong effects on CD8+ T cells, including a marked decline in naïve cells and the emergence of age-associated GZMK+ CD8+ T cells (TAA cells). Although TAA cells make up a significant fraction of the aged CD8+ T cell compartment, the pathway underlying their differentiation remains unknown.
Read the full summary ↓
In this study, we demonstrate that TAA cell development is cell-extrinsic and requires antigen exposure within aged non-lymphoid tissues. Using a novel TNFΔ69AU/+ mouse model, we show that systemic low-grade inflammation, characteristic of inflammaging, accelerates CD8+ T cell aging and promotes early accumulation of TAA cells. Through detailed analysis of TAA cell heterogeneity, we identified a progenitor subpopulation enriched in the aged adipose tissue. Using heterochronic transplantation, we show that adipose tissue acts as a functional niche, supporting progenitor maintenance and driving the conversion of young CD8+ T cells into the aged phenotype. Taken together, our findings reveal how aging of non-lymphoid tissues orchestrates the reorganization of the CD8+ T cell compartment and highlight adipose tissue as a promising target for therapeutic strategies aimed at modulating immune aging.
Published in
Inflammaging in aged tissues drives remodeling of the CD8(+) T cell compartment
Shchukina I, Rodriguez-Hernandez CJ, Ruiz HS et al. · Cell reports 2026 · PMID 42030157 · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2026.117303
This dataset
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Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE304476_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1301360 and SRA study SRP606453. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
15 samples, each with a distinct title — no replicated groups

Any grouping that defines a comparison lives in the sample characteristics, which GEO records separately from the titles.

How we read this: Read from 15 sample titles: 15 distinct titles with little repetition. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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