SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 and TMPRSS2 are predominantly expressed in a transient secretory cell type in subsegmental bronchial branches
Soeren Lukassen, Robert Lorenz Chua, Timo Trefzer, Nicolas C Kahn, Marc A Schneider, Thomas Muley, Hauke Winter, Michael Meister, Carmen Veith, Agnes W Boots, Bianca P Hennig, Michael Kreuter, Christian Conrad, Roland Eils
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.13.991455
Abstract
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affecting the human respiratory system severely challenges public health and urgently demands for increasing our understanding of COVID-19 pathogenesis, especially host factors facilitating virus infection and replication. SARS-CoV-2 was reported to enter cells via binding to ACE2, followed by its priming by TMPRSS2. Here, we investigate ACE2 and TMPRSS2 expression levels and their distribution across cell types in lung tissue (twelve donors, 39,778 cells) and in cells derived from subsegmental bronchial branches (four donors, 17,521 cells) by single nuclei and single cell RNA sequencing, respectively.
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