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Gene Expression Nebulas

A data portal of transcriptome profiles across multiple species

PRJNA658976: SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics in lungs of African green monkeys

Source: NCBI / GSE156755
Submission Date: Aug 24 2020
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Update Date: Jan 16 2021

Summary: Detailed knowledge about dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo is important for unraveling the viral and host response factors that contribute to COVID-19 pathogenesis. The unknown dose and exposure timing in human infections makes the needed well-controlled time course studies impossible and thus animal models of disease are essential to fill in the gaps in our understanding of disease progression. Old-World nonhuman primate species recapitulate mild COVID-19 cases, thereby serving as important models for studying disease pathogenesis. In this study, we compare African green monkeys (AGM; Chlorocebus sabaeus) inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 to AGM inoculated with a gamma-irradiated form of the virus to study the dynamics of virus replication throughout the respiratory tract and other target tissues. RNA sequencing of single cells from the lungs and mediastinal lymph nodes allowed a high-resolution, simultaneous analysis of virus replication and the host response in these tissues over time. Viral replication was mainly localized to the lower respiratory tract, especially the pneumocyte population. However, even in the absence of active replication, viral genomic RNA is was highly stable, especially in the upper respiratory tract. Macrophages play a vital and dynamic role in initiating a pro-inflammatory state in the lungs, while also interacting with infected pneumocytes. Together, our dataset provides a detailed view of changes in host and virus replication dynamics over the course of a mild COVID-19 infection and serves as a valuable resource to identify new therapeutic targets

Overall Design: 10 african green monkeys, 2 inoculated with irradiated SARS-CoV-2, 8 with active SARS-CoV-2, single cell sequencing

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GEND000432
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Growth Protocol: Samples were extracted and process directly from African Green Monkeys during necropsy
Treatment Protocol: 8 animals received active SARS-CoV-2 and 2 received irradiated SARS-CoV-2
Extract Protocol: Tissues were manually disaccociated, digested with liberase, filtered, and treated with ACK lysis before being processed on the 10X genomics NextGEM instrument
Library Construction Protocol: Libraries were prepped according to the 10X genomics V3.0 library prep kits
Sequencing
Molecule Type: Poly(A)+ RNA
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Library Layout: PAIRED
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Platform: ILLUMINA
Instrument Model: Illumina NextSeq 550
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Data Resource GEN Sample ID GEN Dataset ID Project ID BioProject ID Sample ID Sample Name BioSample ID Sample Accession Experiment Accession Release Date Submission Date Update Date Species Race Ethnicity Age Age Unit Gender Source Name Tissue Cell Type Cell Subtype Cell Line Disease Disease State Development Stage Mutation Phenotype Case Detail Control Detail Growth Protocol Treatment Protocol Extract Protocol Library Construction Protocol Molecule Type Library Layout Strand-Specific Library Strand Spike-In Strategy Platform Instrument Model Cell Number Reads Number Gbases AvgSpotLen1 AvgSpotLen2 Uniq Mapping Rate Multiple Mapping Rate Coverage Rate
Publications
Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals SARS-CoV-2 infection dynamics in lungs of African green monkeys.
Science translational medicine . 2021-01-11 [PMID: 33431511]