Table 2. Comparison between the TCRs detected by the single cell RNA-Seq and the bulk RNA-Seq of the CD8+ T cells from the MC38 tumor and the mouse spleen.
Tissue source | Locus | measurement | single cell only | overlap | cell pool only |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MC38 tumor | TCRα | #unique TCRs | 17 | 16 | 250 |
#cells | 16 (1 biallelic)a | 47 (6 biallelic) | ⎯ | ||
%reads | ⎯ | 73.2% | 26.8% | ||
TCRβ | #unique TCRs | 28 | 16 | 618 | |
#cells | 27 (1 biallelic) | 51 | ⎯ | ||
%reads | ⎯ | 70.8% | 29.2% | ||
Spleen | TCRα | #unique TCRs | 61 | 1 | 669 |
#cells | 58 (3 biallelic) | 1 | ⎯ | ||
%reads | ⎯ | 1.3% | 98.7% | ||
TCRβ | #unique TCRs | 82 | 1 | 2355 | |
#cells | 78 (4 biallelic) | 1 | ⎯ | ||
%reads | ⎯ | 0.03% | 99.97% |
a One cell among the 16 cells is biallelic at the TCRα locus. I.e. It has two unique TCRαs. The annotation is applicable to other similar expressions.