RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Comprehensive characterization of the transcriptional response to COVID-19 in multiple organs reveals shared signatures across tissues
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 2022.05.31.493925
DO 10.1101/2022.05.31.493925
A1 The COVID Tissue Atlas Consortium
A1 Alejandro A Granados
A1 Simon Bucher
A1 Aditi Agrawal
A1 Hanbing Song
A1 Ann T Chen
A1 Tien Peng
A1 Norma Neff
A1 Angela Oliveira Pisco
A1 Franklin Huang
A1 Bruce Wang
YR 2022
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2022/05/31/2022.05.31.493925.abstract
AB 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.