Jessica Sook Yuin Ho, Bobo Wing-Yee Mok, Laura Campisi, Tristan Jordan, Soner Yildiz, Sreeja Parameswaran, Joseph A Wayman, Natasha N Gaudreault, David A Meekins, Sabarish V Indran, Igor Morozov, Jessie D Trujillo, Yesai S Fstkchyan, Raveen Rathnasinghe, Zeyu Zhu, Simin Zheng, Nan Zhao, Kris White, Helen Ray-Jones, Valeriya Malysheva, Michiel J Thiecke, Siu-Ying Lau, Honglian Liu, Anna Junxia Zhang, Andrew Chak-Yiu Lee, Wen-Chun Liu, Sonia Jangra, Alba Escalera, Teresa Aydillo, Betsaida Salom Melo, Ernesto Guccione, Robert Sebra, Elaine Shum, Jan Bakker, David A Kaufman, Andre L Moreira, Mariano Carossino, Udeni B R Balasuriya, Minji Byun, Randy A Albrecht, Michael Schotsaert, Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Sumit K Chanda, Emily R Miraldi, Anand D Jeyasekharan, Benjamin R TenOever, Mikhail Spivakov, Matthew T Weirauch, Sven Heinz, Honglin Chen, Christopher Benner, Juergen A Richt, Ivan Marazzi
The ongoing pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is currently affecting millions of lives worldwide. Large retrospective studies indicate that an elevated level of inflammatory cytokines and pro-inflammatory factors are associated with both increased disease severity and mortality. Here, using multidimensional epigenetic, transcriptional, in vitro, and in vivo analyses, we report that topoisomerase 1 (TOP1) inhibition suppresses lethal inflammation induced by SARS-CoV-2...
March 30, 2021: Cell