{"id":3359,"date":"2021-01-31T16:48:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2021-01-31T16:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T16:48:20","slug":"how-coronavirus-damages-lung-cells-within-mere-hours-and-what-drugs-could-halt-covid-19-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/01\/31\/how-coronavirus-damages-lung-cells-within-mere-hours-and-what-drugs-could-halt-covid-19-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"How Coronavirus Damages Lung Cells Within Mere Hours \u2013 And What Drugs Could Halt COVID-19 Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Boston University researchers\u2014hailing from BU\u2019s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at BU\u2019s Medical Campus, and BU\u2019s Center for Network Systems Biology (CNSB)\u2014embarked on a months-long, collaborative and interdisciplinary quest, combining multiple areas of expertise in virology, stem cell\u2013derived lung tissue engineering, and deep molecular sequencing to begin answering those questions. They simultaneously infected tens of thousands of human lung cells with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and then tracked precisely what happens in all of those cells during the first few moments after infection. As if that was not complicated enough, the team had to cool their entire high-containment research facility inside the NEIDL to a brisk 61 degrees\u00a0<span class=\"glossaryLink \" data-cmtooltip=\"The Fahrenheit scale is a temperature scale, named after the German physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and based on one he proposed in 1724. In the Fahrenheit temperature scale, the freezing point of water freezes is 32 \u00b0F and water boils at 212 \u00b0F, a 180 \u00b0F separation, as defined at sea level and standard atmospheric pressure.\u00a0\">Fahrenheit<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The result of that challenging and massive undertaking? The BU team has revealed the most comprehensive map to date of all the molecular activities that are triggered inside lung cells at the onset of coronavirus infection. They also discovered there are at least 18 existing, FDA-approved drugs that could potentially be repurposed to combat\u00a0<span class=\"glossaryLink \" data-cmtooltip=\"First identified in 2019 in Wuhan, China, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has spread globally, resulting in the 2019\u201320 coronavirus pandemic.\">COVID-19<\/span>\u00a0infections shortly after a person becomes infected. Experimentally, five of those drugs reduced coronavirus spread in human lung cells by more than 90 percent. Their findings were recently published in\u00a0<em>Molecular Cell<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, academic and industry collaborators from around the world are in contact with the team about next steps to move their findings from bench to bedside, the researchers say. (Although COVID-19 vaccines are starting to be rolled out, it\u2019s expected to take the better part of a year for enough people to be vaccinated to create herd immunity. And there are no guarantees that the current vaccine formulations will be as effective against future SARS-CoV-2 strains that could emerge over time.) More effective and well-timed therapeutic interventions could help reduce the overall number of deaths related to COVID-19 infections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes this research unusual is that we looked at very early time points [of infection], at just one hour after the virus infects lung cells. It was scary to see that the virus already starts to damage the cells so early during infection,\u201d says Elke M\u00fchlberger, one of the study\u2019s senior investigators and a virologist at BU\u2019s NEIDL. She typically works with some of the world\u2019s most lethal viruses like Ebola and Marburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe most striking aspect is how many molecular pathways are impacted by the virus,\u201d says Andrew Emili, another of the study\u2019s senior investigators, and the director of BU\u2019s CNSB, which specializes in proteomics and deep sequencing of molecular interactions. \u201cThe virus does wholesale remodeling of the lung cells\u2014it\u2019s amazing the degree to which the virus commandeers the cells it infects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3361\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rapid-news-rapidnews-How-Coronavirus-Damages-Lung-Cells-Within-Mere-Hours-\u2013-And-What-Drugs-Could-Halt-COVID-19-Infection-dailyrapidnews.jpg\" alt=\"rapid-news-rapidnews-How-Coronavirus-Damages-Lung-Cells-Within-Mere-Hours \u2013 And-What-Drugs-Could-Halt-COVID-19-Infection-dailyrapidnews\" width=\"732\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rapid-news-rapidnews-How-Coronavirus-Damages-Lung-Cells-Within-Mere-Hours-\u2013-And-What-Drugs-Could-Halt-COVID-19-Infection-dailyrapidnews.jpg 732w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/rapid-news-rapidnews-How-Coronavirus-Damages-Lung-Cells-Within-Mere-Hours-\u2013-And-What-Drugs-Could-Halt-COVID-19-Infection-dailyrapidnews-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Viruses can\u2019t replicate themselves because they lack the molecular machinery for manufacturing proteins\u2014that\u2019s why they rely on infecting cells to hijack the cells\u2019 internal machinery and use it to spread their own genetic material. When SARS-CoV-2 takes over, it completely changes the cells\u2019 metabolic processes, Emili says, and even damages the cells\u2019 nuclear membranes within three to six hours after infection, which the team found surprising. In contrast, \u201ccells infected with the deadly Ebola virus don\u2019t show any obvious structural changes at these early time points of infection, and even at late stages of infection, the nuclear membrane is still intact,\u201d M\u00fchlberger says.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear membrane surrounds the nucleus, which holds the majority of a cell\u2019s genetic information and controls and regulates normal cellular functions. With the cell nucleus compromised by SARS-CoV-2, things rapidly take a bad turn for the entire cell. Under siege, the cells\u2014which normally play a role in maintaining the essential gas exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide that occurs when we breathe\u2014die. As the cells die, they also emit distress signals that boost inflammation, triggering a cascade of biological activity that speeds up cell death and can eventually lead to pneumonia, acute respiratory distress, and lung failure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t have predicted a lot of these pathways, most of them were news to me,\u201d says Andrew Wilson, one of the study\u2019s senior authors, a CReM scientist, and a pulmonologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), BU\u2019s teaching hospital. At BMC, Boston\u2019s safety net hospital, Wilson has been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020, trying to treat and save the sickest patients in the hospital\u2019s ICU. \u201cThat\u2019s why our [experimental] model is so valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Boston University researchers\u2014hailing from BU\u2019s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL), the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Coronavirus Damages Lung Cells within Mere Hours | Rapid 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