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Upper airway gene expression reveals suppressed immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 compared with other respiratory viruses

Eran Mick, Jack Kamm, Angela Oliveira Pisco, Kalani Ratnasiri, Jennifer M. Babik, Gloria Castañeda, Joseph L. DeRisi, Angela M. Detweiler, Samantha L. Hao, Kirsten N. Kangelaris, G. Renuka Kumar, Lucy M. Li (+11 others)
2020 Nature Communications  

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AbstractSARS-CoV-2 infection is characterized by peak viral load in the upper airway prior to or at the time of symptom onset, an unusual feature that has enabled widespread transmission of the virus and precipitated a global pandemic. How SARS-CoV-2 is able to achieve high titer in the absence of symptoms remains unclear. Here, we examine the upper airway host transcriptional response in patients with COVID-19 (n = 93), other viral (n = 41) or non-viral (n = 100) acute respiratory illnesses
more » ... Is). Compared with other viral ARIs, COVID-19 is characterized by a pronounced interferon response but attenuated activation of other innate immune pathways, including toll-like receptor, interleukin and chemokine signaling. The IL-1 and NLRP3 inflammasome pathways are markedly less responsive to SARS-CoV-2, commensurate with a signature of diminished neutrophil and macrophage recruitment. This pattern resembles previously described distinctions between symptomatic and asymptomatic viral infections and may partly explain the propensity for pre-symptomatic transmission in COVID-19. We further use machine learning to build 27-, 10- and 3-gene classifiers that differentiate COVID-19 from other ARIs with AUROCs of 0.981, 0.954 and 0.885, respectively. Classifier performance is stable across a wide range of viral load, suggesting utility in mitigating false positive or false negative results of direct SARS-CoV-2 tests.
doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19587-y pmid:33203890 fatcat:ozjtzomtjzgfjc7bbdvu4e5osq
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Eran Mick, Jack Kamm, Angela Oliveira Pisco, Kalani Ratnasiri, Jennifer M. Babik, Gloria Castañeda, Joseph L. DeRisi, Angela M. Detweiler, Samantha L. Hao, Kirsten N. Kangelaris, G. Renuka Kumar, Lucy M. Li, Sabrina A. Mann, Norma Neff, Priya A. Prasad, Paula Hayakawa Serpa, Sachin J. Shah, Natasha Spottiswoode, Michelle Tan, Carolyn S. Calfee, Stephanie A. Christenson, Amy Kistler, Charles Langelier. "Upper airway gene expression reveals suppressed immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 compared with other respiratory viruses." Nature Communications 11.1 (2020) 5854