合胞体
上睑下垂
细胞融合
溶解循环
细胞生物学
细胞凋亡
程序性细胞死亡
细胞
生物
细胞培养
病毒学
分子生物学
化学
病毒
生物化学
遗传学
作者
Huabin Ma,Zhoujie Zhu,Hongzhi Lin,Shanshan Wang,Peipei Zhang,Yanguo Li,Long Li,Jinling Wang,Yufen Zhao,Jiahuai Han
标识
DOI:10.1038/s41421-021-00310-0
摘要
SARS-Cov-2 infected cells fused with the ACE2-positive neighboring cells forming syncytia. However, the effect of syncytia in disease development is largely unknown. We established an in vitro cell-cell fusion system and used it to mimic the fusion of SARS-CoV-2 infected cells with ACE2-expressing cells to form syncytia. We found that Caspase-9 was activated after syncytia formation, and Caspase-3/7 was activated downstream of Caspase-9, but it triggered GSDME-dependent pyroptosis rather than apoptosis. What is more, single cell RNA-sequencing data showed that both ACE2 and GSDME were expression in alveolar type 2 cells in human lung. We propose that pyroptosis is the fate of syncytia formed by SARS-CoV-2 infected host cells and ACE2-positive cells, which indicated that lytic death of syncytia may contribute to the excessive inflammatory responses in severe COVID-19 patients.
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