T cell fate and clonality inference from single-cell transcriptomes
: Stubbington MJT, Lonnberg T, Proserpio V, Clare S, Speak A, Dougan G, Teichmann SA
Publisher: NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
: 2016
: Nature Methods
: NATURE METHODS
: NAT METHODS
: 13
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: 329
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: 1548-7091
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/NMETH.3800
We developed TraCeR, a computational method to reconstruct full-length, paired T cell receptor (TCR) sequences from T lymphocyte single-cell RNA sequence data. TraCeR links T cell specificity with functional response by revealing clonal relationships between cells alongside their transcriptional profiles. We found that T cell clonotypes in a mouse Salmonella infection model span early activated CD4(+) T cells as well as mature effector and memory cells.