Human Bronchial Epithelial Cell Transcriptome Changes in Response to Serum from Patients with Different Status of Inflammation

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PURPOSE: To investigate the transcriptome of human bronchial epithelial cells (HBEC) in response to serum from patients with different degrees of inflammation.

METHODS: Serum from 19 COVID-19 patients obtained from the Hannover Unified Biobank was used. At the time of sampling, 5 patients had a WHO Clinical Progression Scale (WHO-CPS) score of 9 (severe illness). The remaining 14 patients had a WHO-CPS of below 9 (range 1-7), and lower illness. Multiplex immunoassay was used to assess serum inflammatory markers. The culture medium of HBEC was supplemented with 2% of the patient's serum, and the cells were cultured at 37 °C, 5% CO2 for 18 h. Subsequently, cellular RNA was used for RNA-Seq.

RESULTS: Patients with scores below 9 had significantly lower albumin and serum levels of E-selectin, IL-8, and MCP-1 than patients with scores of 9. Principal component analysis based on 500 "core genes" of RNA-seq segregated cells into two subsets: exposed to serum from 4 (I) and 15 (II) patients. Cells from a subset (I) treated with serum from 4 patients with a score of 9 showed 5566 differentially expressed genes of which 2793 were up- and 2773 downregulated in comparison with cells of subset II treated with serum from 14 patients with scores between 1 and 7 and one with score = 9. In subset I cells, a higher expression of TLR4 and CXCL8 but a lower CDH1, ACE2, and HMOX1, and greater effects on genes involved in metabolic regulation, cytoskeletal organization, and kinase activity pathways were observed.

CONCLUSION: This simple model could be useful to characterize patient serum and epithelial cell properties.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:202

Enthalten in:

Lung - 202(2024), 2 vom: 06. Apr., Seite 157-170

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Sivaraman, Kokilavani [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bin [VerfasserIn]
Martinez-Delgado, Beatriz [VerfasserIn]
Held, Julia [VerfasserIn]
Büttner, Manuela [VerfasserIn]
Illig, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Volland, Sonja [VerfasserIn]
Gomez-Mariano, Gema [VerfasserIn]
Jedicke, Nils [VerfasserIn]
Yevsa, Tetyana [VerfasserIn]
Welte, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
DeLuca, David S [VerfasserIn]
Wrenger, Sabine [VerfasserIn]
Olejnicka, Beata [VerfasserIn]
Janciauskiene, Sabina [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute lung inflammation
Biomarkers
Chemokine/cytokine profile
Gene expression
Immune hyper-activation
Journal Article
RNA-seq

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Date Completed 15.04.2024

Date Revised 25.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s00408-024-00679-1

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM369842111