SARS-CoV-2 infection damages airway motile cilia and impairs mucociliary clearance

ABSTRACT Understanding how SARS-CoV-2 spreads within the respiratory tract is important to define the parameters controlling the severity of COVID-19. We examined the functional and structural consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection in a reconstituted human bronchial epithelium model. SARS-CoV-2 replication caused a transient decrease in epithelial barrier function and disruption of tight junctions, though viral particle crossing remained limited. Rather, SARS-CoV-2 replication led to a rapid loss of the ciliary layer, characterized at the ultrastructural level by axoneme loss and misorientation of remaining basal bodies. The motile cilia function was compromised, as measured in a mucociliary clearance assay. Epithelial defense mechanisms, including basal cell mobilization and interferon-lambda induction, ramped up only after the initiation of cilia damage. Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Syrian hamsters further demonstrated the loss of motile ciliain vivo. This study identifies cilia damage as a pathogenic mechanism that could facilitate SARS-CoV-2 spread to the deeper lung parenchyma..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 22. Nov. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Robinot, Rémy [VerfasserIn]
Hubert, Mathieu [VerfasserIn]
de Melo, Guilherme Dias [VerfasserIn]
Lazarini, Françoise [VerfasserIn]
Bruel, Timothée [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Nikaïa [VerfasserIn]
Levallois, Sylvain [VerfasserIn]
Larrous, Florence [VerfasserIn]
Fernandes, Julien [VerfasserIn]
Gellenoncourt, Stacy [VerfasserIn]
Rigaud, Stéphane [VerfasserIn]
Gorgette, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Thouvenot, Catherine [VerfasserIn]
Trébeau, Céline [VerfasserIn]
Mallet, Adeline [VerfasserIn]
Duménil, Guillaume [VerfasserIn]
Gobaa, Samy [VerfasserIn]
Etournay, Raphaël [VerfasserIn]
Lledo, Pierre-Marie [VerfasserIn]
Lecuit, Marc [VerfasserIn]
Bourhy, Hervé [VerfasserIn]
Duffy, Darragh [VerfasserIn]
Michel, Vincent [VerfasserIn]
Schwartz, Olivier [VerfasserIn]
Chakrabarti, Lisa A. [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2020.10.06.328369

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XBI019080891