Deciphering the role of the Pancreatic Secretome in Covid-19 associated Multi-Organ Dysfunctions
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Abstract
Emerging evidence indicates an intricate relationship between the SARS-CoV-2 infection and Multi-Organ Dysfunctions (MODs). Here, we have investigated the role of the Secretome of the SARS-CoV-2 infected pancreas and mechanistically linked it with the multi-organ dysfunction using the scRNA-seq analysis. We found that acinar-specific PRSS2, REG3A, REG1A, SPINK1 , and ductal-specific SPP1, MMP7 genes are upregulated in alpha, beta, delta, and mesenchyme cells. Using extensive documented experimental evidence, we validated the association of upregulated pancreatic Secretome with coagulation cascade, complement activation, renin angiotensinogen system dysregulation, endothelial cell injury and thrombosis, immune system dysregulation, and fibrosis. Our finding suggests the influence of upregulated Secretome on multi-organ systems such as Nervous, Cardiovascular, Immune, Digestive, and Urogenital systems. In addition, we report that the secretory proteins IL1B, AGT, ALB, SPP1, CRP, SERPINA1, C3, TFRC, TNFSF10, and MIF are associated with diverse diseases. Thus, suggest the role of the pancreatic Secretome in SARS-CoV-2 associated MODs.
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Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources scRNA-seq data of ex vivo SARS-CoV-2 infected human pancreas were retrieved from Gene Expression Omnibus(GSE159556)(Tang et al., 2021). Gene Expression Omnibus(GSE159556)suggested: NoneClustree package was used to choose the final resolution (Zappia and Oshlack, 2018). Clustreesuggested: (clustree, RRID:SCR_016293)Enrichment analysis: We used g:Profiler for GO enrichment analysis, Biological pathway enrichment analysis using KEGG, Reactome, WikiPathways. KEGGsuggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)WikiPathwayssuggeste…SciScore for 10.1101/2021.09.22.461447: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
Ethics not detected. Sex as a biological variable not detected. Randomization not detected. Blinding not detected. Power Analysis not detected. Table 2: Resources
Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources scRNA-seq data of ex vivo SARS-CoV-2 infected human pancreas were retrieved from Gene Expression Omnibus(GSE159556)(Tang et al., 2021). Gene Expression Omnibus(GSE159556)suggested: NoneClustree package was used to choose the final resolution (Zappia and Oshlack, 2018). Clustreesuggested: (clustree, RRID:SCR_016293)Enrichment analysis: We used g:Profiler for GO enrichment analysis, Biological pathway enrichment analysis using KEGG, Reactome, WikiPathways. KEGGsuggested: (KEGG, RRID:SCR_012773)WikiPathwayssuggested: (WikiPathways, RRID:SCR_002134)The disease phenotypes enrichment analysis was performed using Human Phenotype Ontology)(Raudvere et al., 2019) ClueGO, a Cytoscape plug-in, was used to identify the functionally grouped GO and pathway(Bindea et al., 2009). ClueGOsuggested: (ClueGO, RRID:SCR_005748)Cytoscapesuggested: (Cytoscape, RRID:SCR_003032)Pheatmap package was used for generating heatmap(Kolde and Kolde, 2015). Pheatmapsuggested: (pheatmap, RRID:SCR_016418)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).
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