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IMMUNITY
Volume 54, Issue 5, Pages 1083-+Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2021.04.003
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- NIAID [R01AI104739, 3R21AI144315-01A1S1, 5T32AI007019]
- Yale University
- NHLBI [1K08HL136898-01A1]
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
- Division of Intramural Research, NIH
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Through various analyses, specific biological features were identified in MIS-C patients, including myeloid dysfunction, elevated cytotoxicity gene expression in NK and CD8(+) T cells, and autoimmune characteristics, which could potentially improve the diagnosis and prediction of disease severity in MIS-C.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a life-threatening post-infectious complication occurring unpredictably weeks after mild or asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection. We profiled MIS-C, adult COVID-19, and healthy pediatric and adult individuals using single-cell RNA sequencing, flow cytometry, antigen receptor repertoire analysis, and unbiased serum proteomics, which collectively identified a signature in MIS-C patients that correlated with disease severity. Despite having no evidence of active infection, MIS-C patients had elevated S100A-family alarmins and decreased antigen presentation signatures, indicative of myeloid dysfunction. MIS-C patients showed elevated expression of cytotoxicity genes in NK and CD8(+) T cells and expansion of specific IgG-expressing plasmablasts. Clinically severe MIS-C patients displayed skewed memory T cell TCR repertoires and autoimmunity characterized by endothelium-reactive IgG. The alarmin, cytotoxicity, TCR repertoire, and plasmablast signatures we defined have potential for application in the clinic to better diagnose and potentially predict disease severity early in the course of MIS-C.
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