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Public on Oct 25, 2022 |
| Title |
Smoking modulates different secretory subpopulations expressing SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the nasal and bronchial airways (SU2C nasal brushings) |
| Organism |
Homo sapiens |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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| Summary |
SARS-CoV-2 infection and disease severity are influenced by viral entry (VE) gene expression patterns in the airway epithelium. The similarities and differences of VE gene expression (ACE2, TMPRSS2, and CTSL) across nasal and bronchial compartments have not been fully characterized using matched samples from large cohorts. Gene expression data from 793 nasal and 1673 bronchial brushes obtained from individuals participating in lung cancer screening or diagnostic workup revealed that smoking status (current versus former) was the only clinical factor significantly and reproducibly associated with VE gene expression. The expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 was higher in smokers in the bronchus but not in the nose. AQ1 scRNA-seq of nasal brushings indicated that ACE2 co-expressed genes were highly expressed in club and C15orf48 secretory cells while TMPRSS2 co-expressed genes were highly expressed in keratinizing epithelial cells. In contrast, these ACE2 and TMPRSS2 modules were highly expressed in goblet cells in scRNA-seq from bronchial brushings. Cell-type deconvolution of the gene expression data confirmed that smoking increased the abundance of several secretory cell populations in the bronchus, but only goblet cells in the nose. The association of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 with smoking in the bronchus is due to their high expression in goblet cells which increase in abundance in current smoker airways. In contrast, in the nose, these genes are not predominantly expressed in cell populations modulated by smoking. In individuals with elevated lung cancer risk, smokinginduced VE gene expression changes in the nose likely have minimal impact on SARS-CoV-2 infection, but in the bronchus, smoking may lead to higher viral loads and more severe disease.
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| Overall design |
Cells from the inferior turbinate of the nose were collected as part of a study involving participants with indeterminate pulmonary nodules undergoing lung cancer screening at Boston Medical Center and Lahey Hospital Medical Center.
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| Contributor(s) |
Xu K, Shi X, Campbell JD, Beane J |
| Citation(s) |
36307504 |
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| Submission date |
Aug 08, 2022 |
| Last update date |
Nov 02, 2022 |
| Contact name |
Adam C Gower |
| E-mail(s) |
agower@bu.edu
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| Phone |
617-358-7138
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| Organization name |
Boston University School of Medicine
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| Department |
Department of Medicine
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| Lab |
Division of Computational Biomedicine
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| Street address |
72 East Concord Street, E632
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| City |
Boston |
| State/province |
MA |
| ZIP/Postal code |
02118 |
| Country |
USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL18573 |
Illumina NextSeq 500 (Homo sapiens) |
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| Samples (9)
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| This SubSeries is part of SuperSeries: |
| GSE210661 |
Smoking modulates different secretory subpopulations expressing SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the nasal and bronchial airways |
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA867162 |
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