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ArticleThe Journal of infectious diseases2023

The Defenders of the Alveolus Succumb in COVID-19 Pneumonia to SARS-CoV-2 and Necroptosis, Pyroptosis, and PANoptosis.

Luca Schifanella, Jodi Anderson, Garritt Wieking, Peter J Southern, Spinello Antinori, Massimo Galli, Mario Corbellino, Alessia Lai, Nichole Klatt, Timothy W Schacker and 1 more

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Article in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Luca SchifanellaDepartment of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Jodi AndersonDepartment of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Garritt WiekingDepartment of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Peter J SouthernDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Spinello AntinoriIII Division of Infectious Diseases, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-0569-9407
Massimo GalliIII Division of Infectious Diseases, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.
Mario CorbellinoIII Division of Infectious Diseases, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9524-8564
Alessia LaiDepartment of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3174-5721
Nichole KlattDepartment of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Timothy W SchackerDepartment of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Ashley T HaaseDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5374-2388
University of Minnesota · USUniversity of Milan · ITASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco · IT

Funding

Investigation of persistent HIV immune stimulation in lymphoid tissues during therapy as a cause of sustained immune activationR01AI147912 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI SCHACKER, TIMOTHY W · 2020 to 2024
$3.7M
Reservoir Dynamics in Patients Treated in Very Early Acute HIV InfectionR01AI125127 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI SCHACKER, TIMOTHY W · 2016 to 2020
$3.2M
A New Approach to Reactivating HIV from LatencyR01AI134406 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI HAASE, ASHLEY T. · 2017 to 2021
$2.9M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI125127NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI147912NIH HHS R01 AI134406
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alveolar type II (ATII) pneumocytes as defenders of the alveolus are critical to repairing lung injury. We investigated the ATII reparative response in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia, because the initial proliferation of ATII cells in this reparative process should provide large numbers of target cells to amplify severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) virus production and cytopathological effects to compromise lung repair. We show that both infected and uninfected ATII cells succumb to tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF)-induced necroptosis, Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK)-induced pyroptosis, and a new PANoptotic hybrid form of inflammatory cell death mediated by a PANoptosomal latticework that generates distinctive COVID-19 pathologies in contiguous ATII cells. Identifying TNF and BTK as the initiators of programmed cell death and SARS-CoV-2 cytopathic effects provides a rationale for early antiviral treatment combined with inhibitors of TNF and BTK to preserve ATII cell populations, reduce programmed cell death and associated hyperinflammation, and restore functioning alveoli in COVID-19 pneumonia.

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COVID-19SARS-CoV-2HumansLungNecroptosisPyroptosisBTKCOVID-19 pneumonialung repairnecroptosisPANoptosispyroptosisSARS-CoV-2TNFtype II pneumocytes

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PMID36869698
PMCPMC10226656
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