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ArticleCell & bioscience2022

Transcriptional landscape of circulating platelets from patients with COVID-19 reveals key subnetworks and regulators underlying SARS-CoV-2 infection: implications for immunothrombosis.

Weiping Ji, Lu Chen, Wei Yang, Ke Li, Jingting Zhao, Congcong Yan, Cancan You, Minghua Jiang, Meng Zhou, Xian Shen

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Article in Cell & bioscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Weiping Ji *New Coronavirus Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Leadership Office, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325003, People's Republic of China.
Lu Chen *School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325027, People's Republic of China.
Wei Yang *School of Laboratory Medicine and Life Science, Wenzhou Medical University, 325035, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, People's Republic of China.
Ke LiSchool of Biomedical Engineering, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325027, People's Republic of China.
Jingting ZhaoSchool of Biomedical Engineering, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325027, People's Republic of China.
Congcong YanSchool of Biomedical Engineering, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325027, People's Republic of China.
Cancan YouNew Coronavirus Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Leadership Office, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325003, People's Republic of China.
Minghua JiangNew Coronavirus Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Leadership Office, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325003, People's Republic of China.
Meng ZhouSchool of Biomedical Engineering, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325027, People's Republic of China. zhoumeng@wmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9987-9024
Xian ShenNew Coronavirus Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Leadership Office, The Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children's Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, 325003, People's Republic of China. 18817350420@126.com.
Wenzhou Medical University · CN

Funding

Emergency scientific research project ZY202001-1Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province LY18H160058
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThrombosis and coagulopathy are pervasive pathological features of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and thrombotic complications are a sign of severe COVID-19 disease and are associated with multiple organ failure and increased mortality. Platelets are essential cells that regulate hemostasis, thrombus formation and inflammation; however, the mechanism underlying the interaction between platelets and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains unclear.

resultsThe present study performed RNA sequencing on the RNA isolated from platelets obtained from 10 COVID-19 patients and eight healthy donors, and discovered that SARS-CoV-2 not only significantly altered the coding and non-coding transcriptional landscape, but also altered the function of the platelets, promoted thrombus formation and affected energy metabolism of platelets. Integrative network biology analysis identified four key subnetworks and 16 risk regulators underlying SARS-CoV-2 infection, involved in coronavirus disease-COVID-19, platelet activation and immune response pathways. Furthermore, four risk genes (upstream binding transcription factor, RNA polymerase II, I and III subunit L, Y-box binding protein 1 and yippee like 2) were found to be associated with COVID-19 severity. Finally, a significant alteration in the von Willebrand factor/glycoprotein Ib-IX-V axis was revealed to be strongly associated with platelet aggregation and immunothrombosis.

conclusionsThe transcriptional landscape and the identification of critical subnetworks and risk genes of platelets provided novel insights into the molecular mechanisms of immunothrombosis in COVID-19 progression, which may pave the way for the development of novel therapeutic strategies for preventing COVID-19-associated thrombosis and improving the clinical outcome of COVID-19 patients.

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COVID-19ImmunothrombosisPlateletsSARS-CoV-2Transcriptome

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