Multi-organ proteomic landscape of COVID-19 autopsies

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board StatementIRB: Clinical specimens and histological analysis: This study was approved by the Medical Ethics Committee of Union Hospital affiliated to Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (No.2020–0043–1) and Medical Ethical Committee of Westlake University (No.20200329GTN001).
    Consent: With the consent by the fatal COVID-19 patients’ families, ultrasound-guided percutaneous multi-point postmortem core biopsies were performed within two hours after death in a negative pressure isolation ward, from February to April 2020.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    The tissue specific pooled samples were prepared by mixing equal amount of peptides from all samples of a specific organ) were labeled with TMTpro 16plex reagent (Thermo Fisher Scientific™, San Jose, USA)(Li et al., 2020).
    Thermo Fisher Scientific™
    suggested: (Thermo Fisher Scientific, RRID:SCR_008452)
    The MS raw data were analyzed by Proteome Discoverer (Version 2.4.1.15, Thermo Fisher Scientific) using a combination of the FASTA files of 20,365 reviewed Homo sapiens proteins downloaded from UniProt website on 14 April, 2020 and the SARS-CoV-2 virus FASTA of 10 SARS-CoV-2 proteins downloaded from NCBI (version MN908947.3)
    Proteome Discoverer
    suggested: (Proteome Discoverer, RRID:SCR_014477)
    UniProt
    suggested: (UniProtKB, RRID:SCR_004426)
    NCBI
    suggested: (NCBI, RRID:SCR_006472)
    5, Z score > 0 or < 0), or Metascape web-based platform(Zhou et al., 2019) (with p-value < 0.05), or string web-based platform(Szklarczyk et al., 2019).
    Metascape
    suggested: (Metascape, RRID:SCR_016620)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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