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. 2022 Mar 16;52(4):541–549. doi: 10.1002/eji.202149486

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Metabolic deficiency in exhausted CD8+ T cells in chronic environment. Upon antigen persistence, T cells form an intermediate progenitor subset that presents memory‐like characteristics like self‐renewal and tcf‐1 expression. This progenitor subset irreversibly gives rise to the short‐lived terminally exhausted subset, which is associated with a glycolytic gene signature as well as mitochondrial damage.