Project description:Set of microarray experiments used to identify an unknown coronavirus in a viral culture derived from a patient with SARS. March 2003. Keywords = SARS Keywords = coronavirus Keywords = viral discovery Keywords = viruses Keywords = respiratory infection
Project description:Set of microarray experiments used to identify an unknown coronavirus in a viral culture derived from a patient with SARS. March 2003. Keywords = SARS Keywords = coronavirus Keywords = viral discovery Keywords = viruses Keywords = respiratory infection Keywords: repeat sample
Project description:Differential expression was determined in Calu-3 cells between mock infected and infection with either Human coronavirus EMC and SARS coronavirus at different times post infection. Calu-3 2B4 cells were infected with Human Coronavirus EMC 2012 (HCoV-EMC) or mock infected. Samples were collected 0, 3, 7, 12, 18 and 24 hpi. There are 3 mock and 3 infected replicates for each time point, except for 12 hpi for which there are only 2 infected replicates (one replicate did not pass RNA quality check). There were no mock sampes at 18 hpi, and therefore infected samples at 18 hpi were compared with mocks at 24 hpi. For direct comparison with SARS-CoV infected cells, raw data from HCoV-EMC experiments were quantile normalized together with the SARS-CoV dataset (GEO Series accession number GSE33267).
Project description:Differential expression was determined in Calu-3 cells between mock infected and infection with either Human coronavirus EMC and SARS coronavirus at different times post infection.
Project description:Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are zoonotic pathogens that can cause severe respiratory disease in humans. Identification of the host factors that are necessary for viral infection and virus-induced cell death is critical to our understanding of the viral life cycle and can potentially aid the development of new treatment options. Here, we report CRISPR screen results of both SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV infections in derivatives of the human hepatoma cell line Huh7. Our screens identified the known entry receptors ACE2 for SARS-CoV and DPP4 for MERS-CoV. Additionally, the SARS-CoV screen uncovered several components of the NF-κB signaling pathway (CARD10, BCL10, MALT1, MAP3K7, IKBKG), while the MERS-CoV screen revealed the polypyrimidine tract-binding protein PTBP1, the ER scramblase TMEM41B, furin protease and several transcriptional and chromatin regulators as candidate factors for viral replication and/or virus-induced cell death. Together, we present several known and unknown coronavirus host factors that are of interest for further investigation.
Project description:The ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has devastated the global economy and claimed more than one million lives, presenting an urgent global health crisis. To identify host factors required for infection by SARS-CoV-2 and seasonal coronaviruses, we designed a focused high-coverage CRISPR-Cas9 library targeting 332 members of a recently published SARS-CoV-2 protein interactome. We leveraged the compact nature of this library to systematically screen SARS-CoV-2 at two physiologically relevant temperatures (33 ºC and 37 ºC) along with three related coronaviruses (HCoV-229E, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-OC43), allowing us to probe this interactome at a much higher resolution relative to genome scale studies. This approach yielded several new insights, including unexpected virus-specific differences in Rab GTPase requirements and GPI anchor biosynthesis, as well as identification of multiple pan-coronavirus factors involved in cholesterol homeostasis. This coronavirus essentiality catalog could inform ongoing drug development efforts aimed at intercepting and treating COVID-19, and help prepare for future coronavirus outbreaks.
Project description:The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed the lives of more than one million people worldwide. The causative agent, SARS-CoV-2, is a member of the Coronaviridae family, which are viruses that cause respiratory infections of varying severity. The cellular host factors and pathways co-opted by SARS- CoV-2 and other coronaviruses in the execution of their life cycles remain ill-defined. To develop an extensive compendium of host factors required for infection by SARS-CoV-2 and three seasonal coronaviruses (HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, and HCoV-229E), we performed parallel genome-scale CRISPR knockout screens. These screens uncovered multiple host factors and pathways with pan- coronavirus and virus-specific functional roles, including major dependency on glycosaminoglycan biosynthesis, SREBP signaling, BMP signaling, and glycosylphosphatidylinositol biosynthesis, as well as a requirement for several poorly characterized proteins. We identified an absolute requirement for the VTT-domain containing protein TMEM41B for infection by SARS-CoV-2 and three seasonal coronaviruses. This human Coronaviridae host factor compendium represents a rich resource to develop new therapeutic strategies for acute COVID-19 and potential future coronavirus spillover events.
Project description:We performed genome-wide CRISPR KO screens in human Huh7.5.1 cells to select for mutations that render host cells resistant to viral infection by SARS-CoV-2, human coronavirus 229E and OC43.
Project description:The natural host of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) remains elusive. A panel of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses have been identified in pangolins, while the infectivity and pathogenicity of these pangolin-origin coronaviruses (pCoV) to human remains largely unknown. Herein, we comprehensively characterized the infectivity and pathogenicity of pCoV-GD01, the most closest pCoV to SARS-CoV-2, in human cells, human tracheal epithelium organoids, and established animal models in comparision with. The results show that pCoV-GD01 showed similar infectivity to SARS-CoV-2 in human cells and organoids. Remarkably, intranasal inoculation of pCoV-GD01 caused severe lung pathological damage in hACE2 mice, and could establish efficient transmission among co-caged hamsters. Interestingly, in-depth antigenic analysis and animal heterologous challenge experiments demonstrate that pre-existing immunity induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination was sufficient to provide cross-protection against pCoV-GD01 challenge. These collective results highlight the potential risk of persistent spillover from animal hosts like the pangolin, and the COVID-19 pandemic and massive vaccination have reduced the possibility of pCoVs circulation in mankind.
Project description:LY6E is an antiviral restriction factor that inhibits coronavirus spike-mediated fusion, but the cell types in vivo that require LY6E for protection from respiratory coronavirus infection are unknown. Here, we used a panel of seven conditional Ly6e knockout mice to define which Ly6e-expressing cells confer control of airway infection by murine coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2. Loss of Ly6e in Lyz2-expressing cells, radioresistant Vav1-expressing cells, and non-hematopoietic cells increased susceptibility to murine coronavirus. Global conditional loss of Ly6e expression resulted in clinical disease and higher viral burden after SARS-CoV-2 infection, but little evidence of immunopathology. We show that Ly6e expression protected secretory club and ciliated cells from SARS-CoV-2 infection and prevented virus-induced loss of an epithelial cell transcriptomic signature in the lung. Our study demonstrates that lineage confined rather than broad expression of Ly6e sufficiently confers resistance to disease caused by murine and human coronaviruses.