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Cell Cycle Sensing Shapes Human T Cell Fate and Exhaustion Programs

Preprint Created on 13 Jun 2026 bioRxiv

Cell cycle (CC) dynamics are reflected in diverse T cell processes such as TCR activation, expansion, contraction, differentiation, senescence, anergy, and exhaustion; linking CC behaviors to functional and dysfunctional T cell states in development and disease. Progression through CC checkpoints is also tightly linked to cell fate decisions across development. Yet, much remains unknown about the connection between CC sensing and T cell differentiation programs. To disentangle the relationship across T cell state, time-since-activation, receptor signaling, division, and CC, we leverage high-throughput single-cell mass cytometry for parallel measurement of these diverse biological states. By modulating CC progression and receptor signaling with inhibitors as well as tonic signaling Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) models of T cell exhaustion, we reveal that earlier G1/S CC programs crosstalk with receptor signaling to control T cell fate, and that exhaustion programs are downstream to aberrant, S-G2 phase CC arrest signatures in tonic CAR signaling in vitro, in situ, and in vivo across human cancers in association with CD8 T-lymphocyte dysfunction.

Amouzgar, M., Murty, T., Favaro, P., Sotillo, E., Bruce, T., Ho, D., Lam, A. J., Tibshirani, R., Mackall, C. L., Bendall, S. C.

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