Recent clinical data have suggested a correlation between coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and diabetes. Here, we describe the detection of SARS-CoV-2 viral antigen in pancreatic beta cells in autopsy samples from individuals with COVID-19. Single-cell RNA sequencing and immunostaining from ex vivo infections confirmed that multiple types of pancreatic islet cells were susceptible to SARS-CoV-2, eliciting a cellular stress response and the induction of chemokines. Upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, beta cells showed a lower expression of insulin and a higher expression of alpha and acinar cell markers, including glucagon and trypsin1, respectively, suggesting cellular transdifferentiation. Trajectory analysis indicated that SARS-CoV-2 induced eIF2-pathway-mediated beta cell transdifferentiation, a phenotype that could be reversed with trans-integrated stress response inhibitor (trans-ISRIB). Altogether, this study demonstrates an example of SARS-CoV-2 infection causing cell fate change, which provides further insight into the pathomechanisms of COVID-19.
Pubmed ID: 34081913 RIS Download
Publication data is provided by the National Library of Medicine ® and PubMed ®. Data is retrieved from PubMed ® on a weekly schedule. For terms and conditions see the National Library of Medicine Terms and Conditions.
NDRI is a Not-For-Profit (501c3) Corporation dedicated to providing the highest quality human biomaterials for research. NDRI makes it easy for researchers to get the human tissues and organs they need, prepared, preserved and shipped precisely according to their specific scientific protocols, as quickly as possible, and in the largest available quantities. NDRI provides researchers with protocol specific human neurological tissues such as brain stem, spinal cord, and basal ganglia, among others. In addition to control specimens, NDRI recovers tissues from donors with a variety of diseases, including Down syndrome, Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers disease, schizophrenia, and dementia. Through the NDRI 24/7 referral and procurement system, research consented biospecimens can be provided from low post mortem interval donors preserved at 4ºC, frozen or snap frozen, fixed, paraffin embedded, or as unstained slides.
View all literature mentionsGlobal nonprofit biological resource center (BRC) and research organization that provides biological products, technical services and educational programs to private industry, government and academic organizations. Its mission is to acquire, authenticate, preserve, develop and distribute biological materials, information, technology, intellectual property and standards for the advancement and application of scientific knowledge. The primary purpose of ATCC is to use its resources and experience as a BRC to become the world leader in standard biological reference materials management, intellectual property resource management and translational research as applied to biomaterial development, standardization and certification. ATCC characterizes cell lines, bacteria, viruses, fungi and protozoa, as well as develops and evaluates assays and techniques for validating research resources and preserving and distributing biological materials to the public and private sector research communities.
View all literature mentionsCell line Vero is a Spontaneously immortalized cell line with a species of origin Chlorocebus sabaeus
View all literature mentionsCell line Vero is a Spontaneously immortalized cell line with a species of origin Chlorocebus sabaeus
View all literature mentionsThis unknown targets Sheep IgG (H+L)
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal secondary targets IgG (H+L)
View all literature mentionsThis unknown targets IgG (H+L)
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal secondary targets IgG (H+L)
View all literature mentionsThis unknown targets IgG
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets PKR (phospho T446)
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets β-Actin
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets PKR
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets eIF2alpha (Ser51)
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets eIF2alpha
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets ACE-2
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets Nucleoprotein
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets G3BP1
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets Human Neuropilin-1 Affinity Purified Ab
View all literature mentionsThis recombinant monoclonal targets CD304 (Neuropilin-1)
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets Synthetic peptide (Human) from the cytoplasmic region
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets Vimentin
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets Human CD31 / PECAM-1
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets Cytokeratin 19
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets Human Trypsin 1 / PRSS1
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets Human Serpin A1
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets Pancreatic Polypeptide
View all literature mentionsThis monoclonal targets Somatostatin
View all literature mentionsThis unknown targets Glucagon
View all literature mentionsThis polyclonal targets Porcine pancreatic insulin
View all literature mentionsCell line Vero C1008 is a Spontaneously immortalized cell line with a species of origin Chlorocebus sabaeus
View all literature mentionsToppGene Suite is a one-stop portal for gene list enrichment analysis and candidate gene prioritization based on functional annotations and protein interactions network. ToppGene Suite is a one-stop portal for (i) gene list functional enrichment, (ii) candidate gene prioritization using either functional annotations or network analysis and (iii) identification and prioritization of novel disease candidate genes in the interactome. Functional annotation-based disease candidate gene prioritization uses a fuzzy-based similarity measure to compute the similarity between any two genes based on semantic annotations. The similarity scores from individual features are combined into an overall score using statistical meta-analysis.
View all literature mentionsStatistical analysis software that combines scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. Designed for biological research applications in pharmacology, physiology, and other biological fields for data analysis, hypothesis testing, and modeling.
View all literature mentionsVector graphics software to create digital graphics, illustrations, and typography for several types of media: print, web, interactive, video, and mobile.
View all literature mentionsBioinformatics resource system including web server and web service for functional annotation and enrichment analyses of gene lists. Consists of comprehensive knowledgebase and set of functional analysis tools. Includes gene centered database integrating heterogeneous gene annotation resources to facilitate high throughput gene functional analysis.
View all literature mentionsSoftware tool for automated microscope acquisition, device control, and image analysis. Used for integrating dissimilar fluorescent microscope hardware and peripherals into a single custom workstation, while providing all the tools needed to perform analysis of acquired images. Offers user friendly application modules for analysis such as cell signaling, cell counting, and protein expression.
View all literature mentionsSoftware tool as a function in R to draw clustered heatmaps for better control over graphical parameters.
View all literature mentionsOpen source software package for statistical programming language R to create plots based on grammar of graphics. Used for data visualization to break up graphs into semantic components such as scales and layers.
View all literature mentionsA software tool which provides interactive visualization capability for the integrated analysis of high-dimensional gene expression data.
View all literature mentionsAn ontology to capture all aspects of RNA - from primary sequence to alignments, secondary and tertiary structure from base pairing and base stacking to sophisticated motifs.
View all literature mentionsSoftware package for low-level analyses of single-cell RNA-seq data. Used for quality control, data exploration and normalization, cell cycle phase assignment, identification of highly variable and correlated genes, clustering into subpopulations and marker gene detection.
View all literature mentionsSoftware tool as set of analysis pipelines that process chromium single cell RNA-seq output to align reads, generate feature-barcode matrices and perform clustering and gene expression analysis by 10xGenomics.
View all literature mentionsCell line EndoC-betaH1 is a Transformed cell line with a species of origin Homo sapiens (Human)
View all literature mentionsCell line MEL-1 INSGFP/w is a Embryonic stem cell with a species of origin Homo sapiens (Human)
View all literature mentions