Does the human placenta express the canonical cell entry mediators for SARS-CoV-2?

  1. Roger Pique-Regi  Is a corresponding author
  2. Roberto Romero  Is a corresponding author
  3. Adi L Tarca
  4. Francesca Luca
  5. Yi Xu
  6. Adnan Alazizi
  7. Yaozhu Leng
  8. Chaur-Dong Hsu
  9. Nardhy Gomez-Lopez  Is a corresponding author
  1. Perinatology Research Branch, Division of Obstetrics and Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Division of Intramural Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, United States
  2. Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University School of Medicine, United States
  3. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, United States
  4. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, United States
  5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, United States
  6. Detroit Medical Center, United States
  7. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Florida International University, United States
  8. Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University College of Engineering, United States
  9. Department of Physiology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, United States
  10. Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, Wayne State University School of Medicine, United States
2 figures and 4 additional files

Figures

Figure 1 with 1 supplement
Transcriptional map of the human placenta, including the decidua, in the three trimesters of pregnancy.

(A) Uniform Manifold Approximation Plot (UMAP), where dots represent single cells/nuclei and are colored by cell type (abbreviations used are: STB, Syncytiotrophoblast; EVT, Extravillous trophoblast;…

Figure 1—figure supplement 1
UMAP highlighting cells expressing syncytiotrophoblast genes CGA + CSH1 + GH2 that are more efficiently captured when isolating nuclei in snRNA-seq.

Uniform Manifold Approximation Plot (UMAP), where dots represent single cells/nuclei and are colored the combined gene expression of CGA + CSH1 + GH2 and normalized to transcripts per million per …

Figure 2 with 2 supplements
Dot plot depicting the expression of different viral receptors/molecules used by SARS-CoV-2, CMV, and ZIKV.

Each row represents a different cell type, and columns are grouped first by virus type, receptor/molecule gene, and placental tissue/time-of sampling (1DP, 2DP and 3DP represent the first, second, …

Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Gene expression values for BSG across tissues collected by the GTEx project.

For each tissue, a violin plot and a boxplot describe the variation in gene expression levels for BSG across all of the samples collected by the project sorted left to right by median gene …

Figure 2—figure supplement 2
Dot plot depicting the expression of different viral receptors/molecules used by virus that caused congenital infection.

Each row represents a different cell type, and columns are grouped first by virus type, receptor/molecule gene, and placental tissue/time-of sampling (1DP, 2DP and 3DP represent the first, second …

Additional files

Supplementary file 1

Summary of all the single cell resources analyzed using existing and new data.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/58716/elife-58716-supp1-v3.xls
Supplementary file 2

Clinical and demographic characteristics of the study population from which placental samples were collected for snRNAseq studies.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/58716/elife-58716-supp2-v3.docx
Supplementary file 3

Bulk gene expression data analysis of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 in the placental tissues.

https://cdn.elifesciences.org/articles/58716/elife-58716-supp3-v3.docx
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