Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Delayed induction of type I and III interferons mediates nasal epithelial cell permissiveness to SARS-CoV-2

  • Catherine F. Hatton,
  • Rachel A. Botting,
  • Maria Emilia Dueñas,
  • Iram J. Haq,
  • Bernard Verdon,
  • Benjamin J. Thompson,
  • Jarmila Stremenova Spegarova,
  • Florian Gothe,
  • Emily Stephenson,
  • Aaron I. Gardner,
  • Sandra Murphy,
  • Jonathan Scott,
  • James P. Garnett,
  • Sean Carrie,
  • Jason Powell,
  • C. M. Anjam Khan,
  • Lei Huang,
  • Rafiqul Hussain,
  • Jonathan Coxhead,
  • Tracey Davey,
  • A. John Simpson,
  • Muzlifah Haniffa,
  • Sophie Hambleton,
  • Malcolm Brodlie,
  • Chris Ward,
  • Matthias Trost,
  • Gary Reynolds,
  • Christopher J. A. Duncan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27318-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The innate immune response in epithelial cells after SARS-CoV-2 infection is not fully understood. Here the authors use human air-liquid interface culture and show single cell transcription changes and delayed type I Interferon responses after SARS-CoV-2 infection compared with other respiratory viruses.