TY - JOUR T1 - Comprehensive characterization of the transcriptional response to COVID-19 in multiple organs reveals shared signatures across tissues JF - bioRxiv DO - 10.1101/2022.05.31.493925 SP - 2022.05.31.493925 AU - The COVID Tissue Atlas Consortium AU - Alejandro A Granados AU - Simon Bucher AU - Aditi Agrawal AU - Hanbing Song AU - Ann T Chen AU - Tien Peng AU - Norma Neff AU - Angela Oliveira Pisco AU - Franklin Huang AU - Bruce Wang Y1 - 2022/01/01 UR - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/05/31/2022.05.31.493925.abstract N2 - 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’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. ER -