Authors:
Dongsheng Chen, Jian Sun, Jiacheng Zhu, Xiangning Ding, Tianming Lan, Xiran Wang, Weiying Wu, Zhihua Ou, Linnan Zhu, Peiwen Ding, Haoyu Wang, Lihua Luo, Rong Xiang, Xiaoling Wang, Jiaying Qiu, Shiyou Wang, Haimeng Li, Chaochao Chai, Langchao Liang, F (...)
Dongsheng Chen, Jian Sun, Jiacheng Zhu, Xiangning Ding, Tianming Lan, Xiran Wang, Weiying Wu, Zhihua Ou, Linnan Zhu, Peiwen Ding, Haoyu Wang, Lihua Luo, Rong Xiang, Xiaoling Wang, Jiaying Qiu, Shiyou Wang, Haimeng Li, Chaochao Chai, Langchao Liang, Fuyu An, Le Zhang, Lei Han, Yixin Zhu, Feiyue Wang, Yuting Yuan, Wendi Wu, Chengcheng Sun, Haorong Lu, Jihong Wu, Xinghuai Sun, Shenghai Zhang, Sunil Kumar Sahu, Ping Liu, Jun Xia, Lijing Zhang, Haixia Chen, Dongming Fang, Yuying Zeng, Yiquan Wu, Zehua Cui, Qian He, Sanjie Jiang, Xiaoyan Ma, Weimin Feng, Yan Xu, Fang Li, Zhongmin Liu, Lei Chen, Fang Chen, Xin Jin, Wei Qiu, Tianjiao Wang, Yang Li, Xiumei Xing, Huanming Yang, Yanchun Xu, Yan Hua, Yahong Liu, Huan Liu, Xun Xu
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Abstract:
The availability of viral entry factors is a prerequisite for the cross-species transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Large-scale single-cell screening of animal cells could reveal the expression patterns of viral entry genes in different hosts. However, such exploration for SARS-CoV-2 remains limited. Here, we perform single-nucleus RNA sequencing for 11 non-model species, including pets (cat, dog, hamster, and lizard), livestock (goat and rabbit), poultry (duck and pigeon), and wildlife (pangolin, tiger (...)
The availability of viral entry factors is a prerequisite for the cross-species transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Large-scale single-cell screening of animal cells could reveal the expression patterns of viral entry genes in different hosts. However, such exploration for SARS-CoV-2 remains limited. Here, we perform single-nucleus RNA sequencing for 11 non-model species, including pets (cat, dog, hamster, and lizard), livestock (goat and rabbit), poultry (duck and pigeon), and wildlife (pangolin, tiger, and deer), and investigated the co-expression of ACE2 and TMPRSS2. Furthermore, cross-species analysis of the lung cell atlas of the studied mammals, reptiles, and birds reveals core developmental programs, critical connectomes, and conserved regulatory circuits among these evolutionarily distant species. Overall, our work provides a compendium of gene expression profiles for non-model animals, which could be employed to identify potential SARS-CoV-2 target cells and putative zoonotic reservoirs.
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