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Stem Cell Res Ther . SARS-CoV-2-infected hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes reveal dynamic changes in the COVID-19 hearts

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Editor, Senior Moderator
Stem Cell Res Ther


. 2023 Dec 12;14(1):361.
doi: 10.1186/s13287-023-03603-1. SARS-CoV-2-infected hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes reveal dynamic changes in the COVID-19 hearts

Xiao Li[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Hengrui Hu[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 3 [/SUP], Wanlin Liu[SUP] #[/SUP][SUP] 2 [/SUP], Qiyu Zhang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yujie Wang[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xingjuan Chen[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Yunping Zhu[SUP] 2 5 [/SUP], Zhihong Hu[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Manli Wang[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Jie Ma[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Ling Leng[SUP] 8 [/SUP]



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Abstract

Background: The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had an enormous impact on our societies. Moreover, the disease's extensive and sustained symptoms are now becoming a nonnegligible medical challenge. In this respect, data indicate that heart failure is one of the most common readmission diagnoses among COVID-19 patients.
Methods: In this study, we used human induced pluripotent stem cell (hiPSC)-derived cardiomyocytes to develop an in vitro model of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and studied the dynamic changes occurring in cardiomyocytes after SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Results: To this end, we have created an effective time series SARS-CoV-2 infection model exhibiting different functional patterns of up- and downregulated proteins, and demonstrating that SARS-CoV-2 mainly affects (i) the lipid and the energy metabolism of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes during the early infection stage, and (ii) the DNA repair ability of cardiomyocytes during the late infection stage. By analyzing the proteome changes occurring at different infection timepoints, we were able to observe that the simulated disease (COVID-19) course developed rapidly, and that each of the studied timepoints was characterized by a distinct protein expression pattern.
Conclusions: Our findings highlight the importance of early detection and personalized treatment based on the disease stage. Finally, by combing the proteomics data with virus-host interaction network analysis, we were able to identify several potential drug targets for the disease.

Keywords: COVID-19; Heart; Proteome; SARS-CoV-2; hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

 
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