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Title: | Experimental and natural evidence of SARS-CoV-2-infection-induced activation of type I interferon responses |
Authors: | Banerjee A El-Sayes N Budylowski P Jacob RA Richard D Maan H Aguiar JA Demian WL Baid K D'Agostino MR Ang JC Murdza T Tremblay BJ-M Afkhami S Karimzadeh M Irving AT Yip L Ostrowski M Hirota JA Kozak R Capellini TD Miller MS Wang B Mubareka S McGeer AJ McArthur AG Doxey AC Mossman K |
Keywords: | Immunology;Virology |
Publication Date: | May-2021 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Abstract: | Type I interferons (IFNs) are our first line of defense against virus infection. Recent studies have suggested the ability of SARS-CoV-2 proteins to inhibit IFN responses. Emerging data also suggest that timing and extent of IFN production is associated with manifestation of COVID-19 severity. In spite of progress in understanding how SARS-CoV-2 activates antiviral responses, mechanistic studies into wild-type SARS-CoV-2-mediated induction and inhibition of human type I IFN responses are scarce. Here we demonstrate that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces a type I IFN response in vitro and in moderate cases of COVID-19. In vitro stimulation of type I IFN expression and signaling in human airway epithelial cells is associated with activation of canonical transcriptions factors, and SARS-CoV-2 is unable to inhibit exogenous induction of these responses. Furthermore, we show that physiological levels of IFNα detected in patients with moderate COVID-19 is sufficient to suppress SARS-CoV-2 replication in human airway cells. |
metadata.dc.rights.license: | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs - CC BY-NC-ND |
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URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/26588 |
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102477 |
ISSN: | 2589-0042 2589-0042 |
Appears in Collections: | Faculty Publications (via McMaster Experts) |
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