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. 2020 Jul 14;10:11597. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-68396-2

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Influence of aging detected by single-cell RNA sequencing. (A) Proliferation-associated genes were significantly increased in the myeloid primed cells. The bar-plots show the number of proliferation-associated genes as defined by ontology in lymphoid (purple) versus myeloid-primed (pink) CD34+ cells across the 4 donors. The RNA markers for myeloid versus lymphoid differentiation potential are listed in Table S1. The average enrichment was calculated using Fisher Exact test and indicated an overall increase in proliferation-genes in the myeloid-primed subset of CD34+ cells. (B) Up-regulation of expression of proliferation-associated genes in older subjects. The first two boxplots in each row correspond to the gene expressions in lymphoid-primed CD34+ cells. and the second two box-plots show the corresponding gene expressions in myeloid-primed cells. The differences between young and old both in glycolytic and in proliferation-associated proteins among the lymphoid-primed cells were not significant. Among the myeloid-primed cells. parallel to the increase in glycolytic proteins. there was a significant increase in abundance of proliferation-associated genes in older human subjects. Software: Python 2.7. (Accession number of single cell RNA-sequencing data: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/query/acc.cgi?acc=GSE115353).