Journal
IMMUNITY
Volume 54, Issue 4, Pages 797-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2021.03.005
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- NIH [K08 DK122130, AI128949, AI06697, K23 A1141686]
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative COVID-19 grant
- CRI-Irvington Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellowship
- NCI cancer center support grant [P30CA013696]
- [AI093870]
- [AI150680]
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This study investigated the immune responses in the respiratory tract and blood of severe COVID-19 patients, revealing that T cells in the airways showed protective profiles while myeloid cells exhibited hyperinflammatory signatures. These findings provide important insights for understanding and treating COVID-19 lung pathology.
Immune response dynamics in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and their severe manifestations have largely been studied in circulation. Here, we examined the relationship between immune processes in the respiratory tract and circulation through longitudinal phenotypic, transcriptomic, and cytokine profiling of paired airway and blood samples from patients with severe COVID-19 relative to heathy controls. In COVID-19 airways, T cells exhibited activated, tissue-resident, and protective profiles; higher T cell frequencies correlated with survival and younger age. Myeloid cells in COVID-19 airways featured hyperinflammatory signatures, and higher frequencies of these cells correlated withmortality and older age. In COVID-19 blood, aberrant CD163(+) monocytes predominated over conventional monocytes, and were found in corresponding airway samples and in damaged alveoli. High levels of myeloid chemoattractants in airways suggest recruitment of these cells through a CCL2-CCR2 chemokine axis. Our findings provide insights into immune processes drivingCOVID-19 lung pathology with therapeutic implications for targeting inflammation in the respiratory tract.
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