SARS-COV-2 has become a leading cause of illness, hospitalizations, and deaths worldwide yet heterogeneity in disease morbidity remains a conundrum. In this study, we analyzed publicly available single-cell RNA-seq data from 75076 cells sequenced from clinically staged COVID-19 patients using a network approach and identified lysosomal-immune axis as a factor significantly associated with disease severity. Our results suggest modulation of lysosomal-immune pathways may present a novel drug-targeting strategy to attenuate SARS-Cov-2 infections.

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Competing interest reported. R.P., E.T., W.H., K.W.K., D.R., and D.K. are employees of Sanofi and may hold shares and/or stock options in the company
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Posted 26 May, 2021
Posted 26 May, 2021
SARS-COV-2 has become a leading cause of illness, hospitalizations, and deaths worldwide yet heterogeneity in disease morbidity remains a conundrum. In this study, we analyzed publicly available single-cell RNA-seq data from 75076 cells sequenced from clinically staged COVID-19 patients using a network approach and identified lysosomal-immune axis as a factor significantly associated with disease severity. Our results suggest modulation of lysosomal-immune pathways may present a novel drug-targeting strategy to attenuate SARS-Cov-2 infections.

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The full text of this article is available to read as a PDF.
Competing interest reported. R.P., E.T., W.H., K.W.K., D.R., and D.K. are employees of Sanofi and may hold shares and/or stock options in the company
This is a list of supplementary files associated with this preprint. Click to download.
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