Immune cell profiling of COVID-19 patients in the recovery stage by single-cell sequencing6.255Cell Discov . 2020 May 4;6:31. doi: 10.1038/s41421-020-0168-9. eCollection 2020.
Abstract
COVID-19, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has recently affected over 1,200,000 people and killed more than 60,000. The key immune cell subsets change and their states during the course of COVID-19 remain unclear. We sought to comprehensively characterize the transcriptional changes in peripheral blood mononuclear cells during the recovery stage of COVID-19 by single-cell RNA sequencing technique. It was found that T cells decreased remarkably, whereas monocytes increased in patients in the early recovery stage (ERS) of COVID-19. There was an increased ratio of classical CD14++ monocytes with high inflammatory gene expression as well as a greater abundance of CD14++IL1β+ monocytes in the ERS. CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells decreased significantly and expressed high levels of inflammatory genes in the ERS. Among the B cells, the plasma cells increased remarkably, whereas the naïve B cells decreased. Several novel B cell-receptor (BCR) changes were identified, such as IGHV3-23 and IGHV3-7, and isotypes (IGHV3-15, IGHV3-30, and IGKV3-11) previously used for virus vaccine development were confirmed. The strongest pairing frequencies, IGHV3-23-IGHJ4, indicated a monoclonal state associated with SARS-CoV-2 specificity, which had not been reported yet. Furthermore, integrated analysis predicted that IL-1β and M-CSF may be novel candidate target genes for inflammatory storm and that TNFSF13, IL-18, IL-2, and IL-4 may be beneficial for the recovery of COVID-19 patients. Our study provides the first evidence of an inflammatory immune signature in the ERS, suggesting COVID-19 patients are still vulnerable after hospital discharge. Identification of novel BCR signaling may lead to the development of vaccines and antibodies for the treatment of COVID-19.
Keywords: Immunology; Mechanisms of disease.
这篇文章用单细胞测序的方法,研究了新冠恢复期病人的免疫细胞图谱。通过对数据的逐步抽丝剥茧的解读,对恢复期病人外周血中髓系细胞、NK细胞和淋巴细胞等免疫细胞的变化进行了阐述。
IFITM3、IFI6、IL1β、JUN、FOS、JUNB和KLF6等基因的上调所驱动。
这篇文章从结论和方法上,能看出来时间比较紧张,研究方式也比较简单,甚至略微有些粗糙。用到的软件也是单细胞分析比较常用的软件。但这并不影响它成为一篇有用的参考。
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