SARS-CoV-2 infection activates inflammatory macrophages in vascular immune organoids

SARS-CoV-2 provokes devastating tissue damage by cytokine release syndrome and leads to multi-organ failure. Modeling the process of immune cell activation and subsequent tissue damage is a significant task. Organoids from human tissues advanced our understanding of SARS-CoV-2 infection mechanisms though, they are missing crucial components: immune cells and endothelial cells. This study aims to generate organoids with these components. We established vascular immune organoids from human pluripotent stem cells and examined the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection. We demonstrated that infections activated inflammatory macrophages. Notably, the upregulation of interferon signaling supports macrophages role in cytokine release syndrome. We propose vascular immune organoids are a useful platform to model and discover factors that ameliorate SARS-CoV-2-mediated cytokine release syndrome..

Medienart:

Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 22. März Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chau, Chiu Wang [VerfasserIn]
To, Alex [VerfasserIn]
Au-Yeung, Rex K.H. [VerfasserIn]
Tang, Kaiming [VerfasserIn]
Xiang, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Ruan, Degong [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Lanlan [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Hera [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shihui [VerfasserIn]
Au, Man Ting [VerfasserIn]
Chung, Seok [VerfasserIn]
Song, Euijeong [VerfasserIn]
Choi, Dong-Hee [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Pentao [VerfasserIn]
Yuan, Shuofeng [VerfasserIn]
Wen, Chunyi [VerfasserIn]
Sugimura, Ryohichi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

570
Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.03.20.585837

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

XBI043010032