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ArticleFrontiers in pharmacology2021

Therapeutic Targeting of Transcription Factors to Control the Cytokine Release Syndrome in COVID-19.

Clarissa S Santoso, Zhaorong Li, Jaice T Rottenberg, Xing Liu, Vivian X Shen, Juan I Fuxman Bass

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Article in Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Clarissa S SantosoDepartment of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Zhaorong LiBioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Jaice T RottenbergDepartment of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Xing LiuDepartment of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Vivian X ShenDepartment of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Juan I Fuxman BassDepartment of Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States.
Boston University · US

Funding

Structure and Function of Immune Gene Regulatory NetworksR35GM128625 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI Juan Ignacio Fuxman Bass · 2018 to 2026
$4.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM128625
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Treatment of the cytokine release syndrome (CRS) has become an important part of rescuing hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Here, we systematically explored the transcriptional regulators of inflammatory cytokines involved in the COVID-19 CRS to identify candidate transcription factors (TFs) for therapeutic targeting using approved drugs. We integrated a resource of TF-cytokine gene interactions with single-cell RNA-seq expression data from bronchoalveolar lavage fluid cells of COVID-19 patients. We found 581 significantly correlated interactions, between 95 TFs and 16 cytokines upregulated in the COVID-19 patients, that may contribute to pathogenesis of the disease. Among these, we identified 19 TFs that are targets of FDA approved drugs. We investigated the potential therapeutic effect of 10 drugs and 25 drugs combinations on inflammatory cytokine production, which revealed two drugs that inhibited cytokine production and numerous combinations that show synergistic efficacy in downregulating cytokine production. Further studies of these candidate repurposable drugs could lead to a therapeutic regimen to treat the CRS in COVID-19 patients.

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COVID-19cytokine release syndromecytokine stormdrug repurposinggene regulatory networksSARS-CoV2transcriptional regulators

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PMID34163359
PMCPMC8215608
OpenAlexW3166803372

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