{"id":5878,"date":"2021-08-21T09:32:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T00:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2021-08-22T08:23:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T23:23:42","slug":"severe-covid-19-originates-in-pyroptosis-as-many-as-10-of-circulating-monocytes-and-8-of-lung-macrophages-in-covid-19-patients-were-infected-with-sars-cov-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/en\/severe-covid-19-originates-in-pyroptosis-as-many-as-10-of-circulating-monocytes-and-8-of-lung-macrophages-in-covid-19-patients-were-infected-with-sars-cov-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe COVID-19 originates in Pyroptosis: as many as 10% of circulating monocytes and 8% of lung macrophages in COVID-19 patients were infected with SARS-CoV-2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group from Harvard Medical School, USA, etc. has reported that as many as 10% of circulating monocytes and 8% of lung macrophages in COVID-19 patients were infected with SARS-CoV-2, and FcR-mediated uptake of antibody-bound virus triggers inflammatory death (pyroptosis), which is really a double-edged sword in COVID-19.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/article\/rs-153628\/v1\">https:\/\/www.researchsquare.com\/article\/rs-153628\/v1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How SARS-CoV-2 triggers inflammation is not clearly understood. <\/p>\n<p>Monocytes and macrophages are sentinel immune cells in the blood and tissue, respectively. These immune cells sense invasive infection, and form inflammasomes that activate caspase-1 and gasdermin D (GSDMD) pores leading to pyroptosis and release of inflammatory cytokines. <\/p>\n<p>Monocytes are generally thought not to express ACE-2. Indeed, ACE-2 was not detected or barely detected by flow cytometry and qRT-PCR on both healthy donor (HD) monocytes, even when they were activated by SARS-CoV-2. Monocytes express 2 Fcg receptors \u2013 CD32 (FcgRII, expressed on most blood monocytes) and CD16 (FcgRIII, expressed on a small minority of blood monocytes that are activated and increased in number in COVID-19 patients). These receptors could recognize antibody-opsonized viral particles and mediate their entry via antibodydependent phagocytosis (ADP).<br \/>\nRelease of large proteins such as the tetramer LDH, is a pathognomonic feature of pyroptosis and other forms of necrotic cell death. Elevated LDH was one of the best correlates of severe COVID-19 disease. Plasma levels of GSDMD, LDH, IL-1RA and IL-18, were all elevated in severe patient samples compared to those with mild or moderate disease. And also, GSDMD eQTLs were most significantly associated with increased COVID-19 respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GSDMD_COVID-19.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GSDMD_COVID-19-300x78.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"78\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GSDMD_COVID-19-300x78.png 300w, https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GSDMD_COVID-19-600x156.png 600w, https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GSDMD_COVID-19.png 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After virus uptake, SARS-CoV-2 begins to replicate in monocytes, as evidenced by detection of double-stranded RNA etc. However, infection is aborted, and infected cells undergo inflammatory cell death (pyroptosis) mediated by activation of the NLRP3 and AIM2 inflammasomes, caspase-1 and GSDMD. Moreover, tissue-resident macrophages from COVID-19 lung autopsy specimens showed similar evidence of inflammasome activation. These findings taken together suggest that antibody-mediated SARS-CoV-2 infection of monocytes\/macrophages triggers inflammatory cell death that aborts production of infectious virus but causes systemic inflammation that contributes to severe COVID-19 disease pathogenesis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group from Harvard Medical School, USA, etc. has reported that as many as 10% of circulating monocytes and 8<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"blog-btn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/en\/severe-covid-19-originates-in-pyroptosis-as-many-as-10-of-circulating-monocytes-and-8-of-lung-macrophages-in-covid-19-patients-were-infected-with-sars-cov-2\/\" class=\"home-blog-btn\">\u7d9a\u304d\u3092\u8aad\u3080<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emukk.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}