Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Differential effects of macrophage subtypes on SARS-CoV-2 infection in a human pluripotent stem cell-derived model

  • Qizhou Lian,
  • Kui Zhang,
  • Zhao Zhang,
  • Fuyu Duan,
  • Liyan Guo,
  • Weiren Luo,
  • Bobo Wing-Yee Mok,
  • Abhimanyu Thakur,
  • Xiaoshan Ke,
  • Pedram Motallebnejad,
  • Vlad Nicolaescu,
  • Jonathan Chen,
  • Chui Yan Ma,
  • Xiaoya Zhou,
  • Shuo Han,
  • Teng Han,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Adrian Y. Tan,
  • Tuo Zhang,
  • Xing Wang,
  • Dong Xu,
  • Jenny Xiang,
  • Aimin Xu,
  • Can Liao,
  • Fang-Ping Huang,
  • Ya-Wen Chen,
  • Jie Na,
  • Glenn Randall,
  • Hung-fat Tse,
  • Zhiwei Chen,
  • Yin Chen,
  • Huanhuan Joyce Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29731-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Model systems to study SARS-CoV-2 infection are required to better understand the immune response. Here the authors use a lung and macrophage co-culture system by differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to better understand the phenotype and gene expression changes in host lung cells and macrophages after SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro.