COVID-19-related coagulopathy - is transferrin a missing link?

  • SARS-CoV-2 is the causative agent of COVID-19. Severe COVID-19 disease has been associated with disseminated intravascular coagulation and thrombosis, but the mechanisms underlying COVID-19-related coagulopathy remain unknown. Since the risk of severe COVID-19 disease is higher in males than in females and increases with age, we combined proteomics data from SARS-CoV-2-infected cells with human gene expression data from the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) database to identify gene products involved in coagulation that change with age, differ in their levels between females and males, and are regulated in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection. This resulted in the identification of transferrin as a candidate coagulation promoter, whose levels increases with age and are higher in males than in females and that is increased upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. A systematic investigation of gene products associated with the GO term “blood coagulation” did not reveal further high confidence candidates, which are likely to contribute to COVID-19-related coagulopathy. In conclusion, the role of transferrin should be considered in the course of COVID-19 disease and further examined in ongoing clinic-pathological investigations.

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Author:Katie-May McLaughlin, Marco Bechtel, Denisa BojkovaORCiDGND, Mark N. WassORCiD, Martin MichaelisORCiDGND, Jindrich CinatlORCiDGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-727728
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.11.147025
Parent Title (English):bioRxiv
Document Type:Preprint
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2020/06/16
Date of first Publication:2020/06/16
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2023/03/22
Issue:2020.06.11.147025
Page Number:16
HeBIS-PPN:509917763
Institutes:Medizin
Dewey Decimal Classification:6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell - Keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International