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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

Clonal selection of somatic mutations shapes NK cell memory.

Timo Rückert, Matthias Günther, Oliver Knight, Maximilian Mandry, Karl Junker, Simon Grassmann, Joseph C Sun, Thomas Höfer, Chiara Romagnani

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Timo RückertCharité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Immunology, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1433-1372
Matthias GüntherDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8077-8194
Oliver KnightCharité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Immunology, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-0424-2379
Maximilian MandryCharité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Immunology, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0009-0004-9256-5443
Karl JunkerCharité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Immunology, Berlin, Germany.
Simon GrassmannImmunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8336-3418
Joseph C SunImmunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8062-9033
Thomas HöferDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 280, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3560-8780
Chiara RomagnaniCharité - Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitaet Berlin and Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Institute of Medical Immunology, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5167-7463

Funding

X-RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHYP30CA008748 · NCI · SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RES · PI SELWYN M VICKERS · 1985 to 2026
$347.4M
The natural killer cell response against mouse cytomegalovirus infectionR01AI100874 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI Joseph Chai-Yuen Sun · 2012 to 2026
$7.4M
Transcriptional control of NK cell metabolismR01AI155558 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI Joseph Chai-Yuen Sun · 2021 to 2026
$4.7M
Chromatin architecture regulating trained immunity in antiviral NK cellsR01AI189793 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI SUN, JOSEPH CHAI-YUEN · 2025 to 2025
$3.5M
Regulation of Nfil3 in innate lymphocyte-mediated host immunityR01AI130043 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI SUN, JOSEPH CHAI-YUEN · 2017 to 2021
$2.8M
Inflammatory B Cells Defined by TIM-4 in the Alloimmune ResponseR56AI130034 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI ROTHSTEIN, DAVID M · 2017 to 2017
$371k
Investigating the molecular basis of context-dependent STAT3 function in NK cellsK99AI180360 · NIAID · SLOAN-KETTERING INST CAN RESEARCH · PI GRASSMANN, SIMON · 2024 to 2025
$229k
NCI NIH HHS P30 CA008748NIAID NIH HHS K99 AI180360NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI100874NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI130043NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI155558NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI189793NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI130034
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adaptive immune memory relies on selective clonal expansion and persistence of lymphocyte populations. Whether and how clonal selection occurs in innate lymphocytes that lack rearranged antigen receptors remains poorly understood. Here, we used somatic genetics to reconstruct the natural history of human natural killer (NK) cell responses to cytomegalovirus infection. Across a large cohort of healthy seropositive individuals, we found strong clonal dominance in memory NK cells consistent with clonal selection. Dominant memory NK cell clones were marked by coherent receptor and chromatin configurations, emerged early in life and diversified into genetically related subclones. Both an excess of coding mutations, and the reconstructed population dynamics of the dominant clones, provided evidence for positive selection acting on somatic genetic variation. We identified somatic loss-of-function mutations in the chromatin modifier

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