Interfering with interferons: A critical mechanism for critical COVID-19 pneumonia

HC Su, H **g, Y Zhang… - Annual review of …, 2023‏ - annualreviews.org
Infection with SARS-CoV-2 results in clinical outcomes ranging from silent or benign
infection in most individuals to critical pneumonia and death in a few. Genetic studies in …

Clinical implications of host genetic variation and susceptibility to severe or critical COVID-19

CI van der Made, MG Netea, FL van der Veerdonk… - Genome medicine, 2022‏ - Springer
Since the start of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, important insights
have been gained into virus biology and the host factors that modulate the human immune …

Three-year outcomes of post-acute sequelae of COVID-19

M Cai, Y **e, EJ Topol, Z Al-Aly - Nature medicine, 2024‏ - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection causes post-
acute sequelae of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)(PASC) in many organ systems …

Early treatment with pegylated interferon lambda for Covid-19

G Reis, EAS Moreira Silva… - … England Journal of …, 2023‏ - Mass Medical Soc
Background The efficacy of a single dose of pegylated interferon lambda in preventing
clinical events among outpatients with acute symptomatic coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid …

[HTML][HTML] The Penn Medicine BioBank: towards a genomics-enabled learning healthcare system to accelerate precision medicine in a diverse population

A Verma, SM Damrauer, N Naseer, JE Weaver… - Journal of Personalized …, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
The Penn Medicine BioBank (PMBB) is an electronic health record (EHR)-linked biobank at
the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine). A large variety of health-related information …

Oligoadenylate synthetase 1 displays dual antiviral mechanisms in driving translational shutdown and protecting interferon production

MK Harioudh, J Perez, Z Chong, S Nair, L So… - Immunity, 2024‏ - cell.com
In response to viral infection, how cells balance translational shutdown to limit viral
replication and the induction of antiviral components like interferons (IFNs) is not well …

The canonical antiviral protein oligoadenylate synthetase 1 elicits antibacterial functions by enhancing IRF1 translation

MK Harioudh, J Perez, L So, M Maheshwari, TS Ebert… - Immunity, 2024‏ - cell.com
An important property of the host innate immune response during microbial infection is its
ability to control the expression of antimicrobial effector proteins, but how this occurs post …

Interferon at the crossroads of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 disease

CE Samuel - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2023‏ - jbc.org
A novel coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 emerged in late 2019, possibly following a
zoonotic crossover from a coronavirus present in bats. This virus was identified as the …

Innate immune responses to RNA: sensing and signaling

X Luan, L Wang, G Song, W Zhou - Frontiers in Immunology, 2024‏ - frontiersin.org
Nucleic acids are among the most essential PAMPs (pathogen-associated molecular
patterns). Animals have evolved numerous sensors to recognize nucleic acids and trigger …

Detection of isoforms and genomic alterations by high-throughput full-length single-cell RNA sequencing in ovarian cancer

A Dondi, U Lischetti, F Jacob, F Singer… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Understanding the complex background of cancer requires genotype-phenotype information
in single-cell resolution. Here, we perform long-read single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA …