Epigenetic underpinnings of inflammation: Connecting the dots between pulmonary diseases, lung cancer and COVID-19

S Ahmad, S Manzoor, S Siddiqui, N Mariappan… - Seminars in cancer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Inflammation is an essential component of several respiratory diseases, such as chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and acute respiratory distress syndrome …

Single-cell multiomic profiling of human lungs reveals cell-type-specific and age-dynamic control of SARS-CoV2 host genes

A Wang, J Chiou, OB Poirion, J Buchanan, MJ Valdez… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Respiratory failure associated with COVID-19 has placed focus on the lungs. Here, we
present single-nucleus accessible chromatin profiles of 90,980 nuclei and matched single …

Tobacco smoking increases the lung gene expression of ACE2, the receptor of SARS-CoV-2

G Cai, Y Bossé, F Xiao, F Kheradmand… - American journal of …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
Methods We evaluated a comprehensive set of transcriptomic data sets to investigate the
associations of smoking with ACE2, FURIN, and TMPRSS2 gene expression in lung tissues …

Epigenetic alterations and inflammation as emerging use for the advancement of treatment in non-small cell lung cancer

S Yang, Y Huang, Q Zhao - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lung cancer remains one of the most common malignancies in the world. Nowadays, the
most common lung cancer is non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), namely …

Chronic lung diseases are associated with gene expression programs favoring SARS-CoV-2 entry and severity

LT Bui, NI Winters, MI Chung, C Joseph… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Patients with chronic lung disease (CLD) have an increased risk for severe coronavirus
disease-19 (COVID-19) and poor outcomes. Here, we analyze the transcriptomes of …

[HTML][HTML] A single-cell transcriptomic landscape of the lungs of patients with COVID-19

S Wang, X Yao, S Ma, Y Ping, Y Fan, S Sun, Z He… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
The lung is the primary organ targeted by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), making respiratory failure a leading coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

miRNAs, from evolutionary junk to possible prognostic markers and therapeutic targets in COVID-19

B Bautista-Becerril, G Pérez-Dimas… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a public health issue around the world in the last few
years. Currently, there is no specific antiviral treatment to fight the disease. Thus, it is …

Deregulated miRNA expression is associated with endothelial dysfunction in post-mortem lung biopsies of COVID-19 patients

A Centa, AS Fonseca… - … of Physiology-Lung …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are critical modulators of endothelial homeostasis, which highlights
their involvement in vascular diseases, including those caused by virus infections. Our main …

Epigenetic regulation of inflammatory signaling and inflammation-induced cancer

SYX Tan, J Zhang, WW Tee - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Epigenetics comprise a diverse array of reversible and dynamic modifications to the cell's
genome without implicating any DNA sequence alterations. Both the external environment …

COVID-19 hyperinflammation: what about neutrophils?

A Didangelos - MSphere, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT COVID-19 is often related to hyperinflammation that drives lung or multiorgan
injury. The immunopathological mechanisms that cause excessive inflammation are under …