A systems biology approach identifies candidate drugs to reduce mortality in severely ill patients with COVID-19.
Sci Adv
; 8(22): eabm2510, 2022 06 03.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1874488
ABSTRACT
Despite the availability of highly efficacious vaccines, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lacks effective drug treatment, which results in a high rate of mortality. To address this therapeutic shortcoming, we applied a systems biology approach to the study of patients hospitalized with severe COVID. We show that, at the time of hospital admission, patients who were equivalent on the clinical ordinal scale displayed significant differential monocyte epigenetic and transcriptomic attributes between those who would survive and those who would succumb to COVID-19. We identified messenger RNA metabolism, RNA splicing, and interferon signaling pathways as key host responses overactivated by patients who would not survive. Those pathways are prime drug targets to reduce mortality of critically ill patients with COVID-19, leading us to identify tacrolimus, zotatifin, and nintedanib as three strong candidates for treatment of severely ill patients at the time of hospital admission.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19 Drug Treatment
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Sci Adv
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Sciadv.abm2510
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