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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-25804-z
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91753201, 21721005, 91940000, 81772276, 21822704, 91940304, 21778040, 21907077]
- Hubei Provincial Natural Science Fund for Creative Research Groups [2019CFA018]
- Translational Medicine and Interdisciplinary Research Joint Fund of Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University [ZNJC201914]
- Postdoctoral Innovative Talent Support Program of China [BX20180228]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2019M652691]
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The study characterizes transcriptomic and epigenetic changes in patients infected with SFTSV, correlating them with clinical parameters to enhance understanding of disease progression. This research suggests that monitoring specific indicators may guide personalized treatment for SFTS.
Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is a novel tick-borne infectious disease caused by a new type of SFTS virus (SFTSV). Here, a longitudinal sampling study is conducted to explore the differences in transcript levels after SFTSV infection, and to characterize the transcriptomic and epigenetic profiles of hospitalized patients. The results reveal significant changes in the mRNA expression of certain genes from onset to recovery. Moreover, m(6)A-seq reveals that certain genes related with immune regulation may be regulated by m(6)A. Besides the routine tests such as platelet counts, serum ALT and AST levels testing, distinct changes in myocardial enzymes, coagulation function, and inflammation are well correlated with the clinical data and sequencing data, suggesting that clinical practitioners should monitor the above indicators to track disease progression and guide personalized treatment. In this study, the transcript changes and RNA modification may lend a fresh perspective to our understanding of the SFTSV and play a significant role in the discovery of drugs for effective treatment of this disease. Severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome (SFTS) is an emerging hemorrhagic fever caused by tick-borne SFTS virus. Here, Wang et al. characterize transcriptomic and epigenetic changes in infected patients and correlate them with clinical parameters to improve the understanding of disease progression.
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