Comparative analysis of single cell lung atlas of bat, cat, tiger and pangolin

ABSTRACT Horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus sinicus) might help maintain coronaviruses severely affecting human health, such as SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. It has long been suggested that bats may be more tolerant of viral infection than other mammals due to their unique immune system, but the exact mechanism remains to be fully explored. During the COVID-19 pandemic, multiple animal species were diseased by SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially in the respiratory system. Herein, single-cell transcriptomic data of the lungs of a horseshoe bat, a cat, a tiger, and a pangolin were generated. The receptor distribution of twenty-eight respiratory viruses belonging to fourteen viral families were characterized for the four species. Comparison on the immune-related transcripts further revealed limited cytokine activations in bats, which might explain the reason why bats experienced only mild diseases or even no symptoms upon virus infection. Our findings might increase our understanding of the immune background of horseshoe bats and their insensitivity to virus infections..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

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bioRxiv.org - (2022) vom: 28. Okt. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2022

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Wang, Xiran [VerfasserIn]
Ou, Zhihua [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Peiwen [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Chengcheng [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Daxi [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Jiacheng [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Wendi [VerfasserIn]
Wei, Yanan [VerfasserIn]
Ding, Xiangning [VerfasserIn]
Luo, Lihua [VerfasserIn]
Li, Meiling [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Wensheng [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Xin [VerfasserIn]
Sun, Jian [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Huan [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Dongsheng [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2021.12.26.473325

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XBI033311323