Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Chronic lung diseases are associated with gene expression programs favoring SARS-CoV-2 entry and severity

  • Linh T. Bui,
  • Nichelle I. Winters,
  • Mei-I Chung,
  • Chitra Joseph,
  • Austin J. Gutierrez,
  • Arun C. Habermann,
  • Taylor S. Adams,
  • Jonas C. Schupp,
  • Sergio Poli,
  • Lance M. Peter,
  • Chase J. Taylor,
  • Jessica B. Blackburn,
  • Bradley W. Richmond,
  • Andrew G. Nicholson,
  • Doris Rassl,
  • William A. Wallace,
  • Ivan O. Rosas,
  • R. Gisli Jenkins,
  • Naftali Kaminski,
  • Jonathan A. Kropski,
  • Nicholas E. Banovich,
  • Human Cell Atlas Lung Biological Network

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24467-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Patients with chronic lung disease (CLD) have an increased risk for severe coronavirus disease-19 and poor outcomes. Here the authors compare the transcriptomes of single cells isolated from healthy and CLD lungs to identify molecular characteristics of lung cells that may account for worse COVID-19 outcomes in these patients.