Severely ill COVID-19 patients display augmented functional properties in SARS-CoV-2-reactive CD8<sub>+</sub>T cells

ABSTRACT The molecular properties of CD8+T cells that respond to SARS-CoV-2 infection are not fully known. Here, we report on the single-cell transcriptomes of &gt;80,000 virus-reactive CD8+T cells from 39 COVID-19 patients and 10 healthy subjects. COVID-19 patients segregated into two groups based on whether the dominant CD8+T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 was ‘exhausted’ or not. SARS-CoV-2-reactive cells in the exhausted subset were increased in frequency and displayed lesser cytotoxicity and inflammatory features in COVID-19 patients with mild compared to severe illness. In contrast, SARS-CoV-2-reactive cells in the non-exhausted subsets from patients with severe disease showed enrichment of transcripts linked to co-stimulation, pro-survival NF-κB signaling, and anti-apoptotic pathways, suggesting the generation of robust CD8+T cell memory responses in patients with severe COVID-19 illness. CD8+T cells reactive to influenza and respiratory syncytial virus from healthy subjects displayed polyfunctional features. Cells with such features were mostly absent in SARS-CoV-2 responsive cells from both COVID-19 patients and healthy controls non-exposed to SARS-CoV-2. Overall, our single-cell analysis revealed substantial diversity in the nature of CD8+T cells responding to SARS-CoV-2..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 02. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kusnadi, Anthony [VerfasserIn]
Ramírez-Suástegui, Ciro [VerfasserIn]
Fajardo, Vicente [VerfasserIn]
Chee, Serena J [VerfasserIn]
Meckiff, Benjamin J [VerfasserIn]
Simon, Hayley [VerfasserIn]
Pelosi, Emanuela [VerfasserIn]
Seumois, Grégory [VerfasserIn]
Ay, Ferhat [VerfasserIn]
Vijayanand, Pandurangan [VerfasserIn]
Ottensmeier, Christian H [VerfasserIn]

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570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.07.09.194027

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XBI018330320