Major alterations in the mononuclear phagocyte landscape associated with COVID-19 severity

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Abstract

While broad efforts toward getting an overview of immune cell and soluble factor alterations in COVID-19 are under way, a deep and comprehensive understanding of the mononuclear phagocyte system, including circulating progenitors, is still largely lacking. This study provides a reference for the mononuclear phagocyte response to SARS-CoV-2 infection and unravels mononuclear phagocyte dysregulations associated with severe COVID-19.

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Briefly, 50 μl EDTA blood and 20 μl of antibody mix (6-color TBNK Reagent and CD123 BUV395 from BD, CD15 PB, CD193 BV605 and HLA-DR BV785 from Biolegend and CD14 PE-Cy5 from eBioscience) were added in BD trucount tubes and incubated for 15 min at room temperature in the dark.
    CD123
    suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 306032, RRID:AB_2566448)
    CD193
    suggested: (BD Biosciences Cat# 564188, RRID:AB_2738655)
    HLA-DR BV785
    suggested: (BioLegend Cat# 307641, RRID:AB_2561360)
    CD14
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Flow cytometry analysis: Acquired data was analyzed using DIVA (BD Biosciences), FlowJo v.10.5.3 (BD Biosciences) and Prism v.
    FlowJo
    suggested: (FlowJo, RRID:SCR_008520)
    8.0.2 (GraphPad Software Inc.)
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)
    Algorithms used for dimensionality reduction were UMAP (Becht et al., Nature Biotechnology, 2018; https://github.com/lmcinnes/umap) and Phenograph (Levine et al., Cell, 2015;
    Phenograph
    suggested: (Phenograph, RRID:SCR_016919)
    Single cell analysis: Seurat version 3 was used to re-analyze single cell data.
    Seurat
    suggested: (SEURAT, RRID:SCR_007322)
    In brief, scRNA-seq from previously published report22 was used and 10X Genomics filtered_feature_bc_matrix files were acquired from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO; accession number GSE145926).
    Gene Expression Omnibus
    suggested: (Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO, RRID:SCR_005012)
    Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) was performed to study pathways (Content version: 51963813; Release Date: 2020-03-11; Ingenuity Systems)
    Ingenuity Pathway Analysis
    suggested: (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, RRID:SCR_008653)

    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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