Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Severe COVID-19 patients have impaired plasmacytoid dendritic cell-mediated control of SARS-CoV-2

  • Manon Venet,
  • Margarida Sa Ribeiro,
  • Elodie Décembre,
  • Alicia Bellomo,
  • Garima Joshi,
  • Célia Nuovo,
  • Marine Villard,
  • David Cluet,
  • Magali Perret,
  • Rémi Pescamona,
  • Helena Paidassi,
  • Thierry Walzer,
  • Omran Allatif,
  • Alexandre Belot,
  • Sophie Trouillet-Assant,
  • Emiliano P. Ricci,
  • Marlène Dreux

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36140-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Plasmacytoid DC (pDC) have been shown to secrete type I IFN and to be involved in controlling replication and spread of some viruses. Here the authors show that in severe SARS-CoV-2 infection pDC function is impaired leading to reduced type I IFN production and possibly lower viral control.