A high-throughput, high-containment human primary epithelial airway organ-on-chip platform for SARS-CoV-2 Therapeutic Screening

CR Fisher, F Mba Medie, RJ Luu, RB Gaibler… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
CR Fisher, F Mba Medie, RJ Luu, RB Gaibler, TJ Mulhern, CR Miller, CJ Zhang, LD Rubio…
Cells, 2023mdpi.com
COVID-19 emerged as a worldwide pandemic in early 2020, and while the rapid
development of safe and efficacious vaccines stands as an extraordinary achievement, the
identification of effective therapeutics has been less successful. This process has been
limited in part by a lack of human-relevant preclinical models compatible with therapeutic
screening on the native virus, which requires a high-containment environment. Here, we
report SARS-CoV-2 infection and robust viral replication in PREDICT96-ALI, a high …
COVID-19 emerged as a worldwide pandemic in early 2020, and while the rapid development of safe and efficacious vaccines stands as an extraordinary achievement, the identification of effective therapeutics has been less successful. This process has been limited in part by a lack of human-relevant preclinical models compatible with therapeutic screening on the native virus, which requires a high-containment environment. Here, we report SARS-CoV-2 infection and robust viral replication in PREDICT96-ALI, a high-throughput, human primary cell-based organ-on-chip platform. We evaluate unique infection kinetic profiles across lung tissue from three human donors by immunofluorescence, RT-qPCR, and plaque assays over a 6-day infection period. Enabled by the 96 devices/plate throughput of PREDICT96-ALI, we also investigate the efficacy of Remdesivir and MPro61 in a proof-of-concept antiviral study. Both compounds exhibit an antiviral effect against SARS-CoV-2 in the platform. This demonstration of SARS-CoV-2 infection and antiviral dosing in a high-throughput organ-on-chip platform presents a critical capability for disease modeling and therapeutic screening applications in a human physiology-relevant in vitro system.
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