Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Downregulation of exhausted cytotoxic T cells in gene expression networks of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

  • Noam D. Beckmann,
  • Phillip H. Comella,
  • Esther Cheng,
  • Lauren Lepow,
  • Aviva G. Beckmann,
  • Scott R. Tyler,
  • Konstantinos Mouskas,
  • Nicole W. Simons,
  • Gabriel E. Hoffman,
  • Nancy J. Francoeur,
  • Diane Marie Del Valle,
  • Gurpawan Kang,
  • Anh Do,
  • Emily Moya,
  • Lillian Wilkins,
  • Jessica Le Berichel,
  • Christie Chang,
  • Robert Marvin,
  • Sharlene Calorossi,
  • Alona Lansky,
  • Laura Walker,
  • Nancy Yi,
  • Alex Yu,
  • Jonathan Chung,
  • Matthew Hartnett,
  • Melody Eaton,
  • Sandra Hatem,
  • Hajra Jamal,
  • Alara Akyatan,
  • Alexandra Tabachnikova,
  • Lora E. Liharska,
  • Liam Cotter,
  • Brian Fennessy,
  • Akhil Vaid,
  • Guillermo Barturen,
  • Hardik Shah,
  • Ying-chih Wang,
  • Shwetha Hara Sridhar,
  • Juan Soto,
  • Swaroop Bose,
  • Kent Madrid,
  • Ethan Ellis,
  • Elyze Merzier,
  • Konstantinos Vlachos,
  • Nataly Fishman,
  • Manying Tin,
  • Melissa Smith,
  • Hui Xie,
  • Manishkumar Patel,
  • Kai Nie,
  • Kimberly Argueta,
  • Jocelyn Harris,
  • Neha Karekar,
  • Craig Batchelor,
  • Jose Lacunza,
  • Mahlet Yishak,
  • Kevin Tuballes,
  • Ieisha Scott,
  • Arvind Kumar,
  • Suraj Jaladanki,
  • Charuta Agashe,
  • Ryan Thompson,
  • Evan Clark,
  • Bojan Losic,
  • Lauren Peters,
  • The Mount Sinai COVID-19 Biobank Team,
  • Panagiotis Roussos,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Wenhui Wang,
  • Andrew Kasarskis,
  • Benjamin S. Glicksberg,
  • Girish Nadkarni,
  • Dusan Bogunovic,
  • Cordelia Elaiho,
  • Sandeep Gangadharan,
  • George Ofori-Amanfo,
  • Kasey Alesso-Carra,
  • Kenan Onel,
  • Karen M. Wilson,
  • Carmen Argmann,
  • Supinda Bunyavanich,
  • Marta E. Alarcón-Riquelme,
  • Thomas U. Marron,
  • Adeeb Rahman,
  • Seunghee Kim-Schulze,
  • Sacha Gnjatic,
  • Bruce D. Gelb,
  • Miriam Merad,
  • Robert Sebra,
  • Eric E. Schadt,
  • Alexander W. Charney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24981-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) onsets in COVID-19 patients with manifestations similar to Kawasaki disease (KD). Here the author probe the peripheral blood transcriptome of MIS-C patients to find signatures related to natural killer (NK) cell activation and CD8+ T cell exhaustion that are shared with KD patients.