Communications Biology (May 2022)

Cell response analysis in SARS-CoV-2 infected bronchial organoids

  • Emi Sano,
  • Tatsuya Suzuki,
  • Rina Hashimoto,
  • Yumi Itoh,
  • Ayaka Sakamoto,
  • Yusuke Sakai,
  • Akatsuki Saito,
  • Daisuke Okuzaki,
  • Daisuke Motooka,
  • Yukiko Muramoto,
  • Takeshi Noda,
  • Tomohiko Takasaki,
  • Jun-Ichi Sakuragi,
  • Shohei Minami,
  • Takeshi Kobayashi,
  • Takuya Yamamoto,
  • Yasufumi Matsumura,
  • Miki Nagao,
  • Toru Okamoto,
  • Kazuo Takayama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03499-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Bronchial organoids (BO) and BO-derived air-liquid interface models (BO-ALI) are used to model SARS-CoV-2 infection of human bronchial epithelial cells, reporting that ciliated cells were permissive to the virus, unlike basal cells.