@article {2022.05.31.493925, author = {The COVID Tissue Atlas Consortium and Alejandro A Granados and Simon Bucher and Aditi Agrawal and Hanbing Song and Ann T Chen and Tien Peng and Norma Neff and Angela Oliveira Pisco and Franklin Huang and Bruce Wang}, title = {Comprehensive characterization of the transcriptional response to COVID-19 in multiple organs reveals shared signatures across tissues}, elocation-id = {2022.05.31.493925}, year = {2022}, doi = {10.1101/2022.05.31.493925}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {Infection by Coronavirus SARS-CoV2 is a severe and often deadly disease that has implications for the respiratory system and multiple organs across the human body. While the effects in the lung have been extensively studied, less is known about COVID-19{\textquoteright}s cellular impact across other organs. Here we contribute a single-nuclei RNA sequencing atlas comprising six human organs across 20 autopsies where we analyzed the transcriptional changes due to COVID-19 in multiple cell types. Computational cross-organ analysis for endothelial cells and macrophages identified systemic transcriptional changes in these cell types in COVID-19 samples. In addition, analysis of signaling pathways from multiple datasets showed several systemic dysregulations of signaling interaction in different cell types. Altogether, the COVID Tissue Atlas enables the investigation of both cell type-specific and cross-organ transcriptional responses to COVID-19, providing insights into the molecular networks affected by the disease and highlighting novel potential targets for therapies and drug development.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/05/31/2022.05.31.493925}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/05/31/2022.05.31.493925.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }