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Lamin B Cham1,2, Miriam Rosas-Umbert3,2, Lin Lin4
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark, laminbcham@clin.au.dk.
Background/Aims:
Immune cells are reported to upregulate CD47 during infection, however, the role of CD47 in innate and adaptive immune cells remains unclear.
Methods:
To bridge this knowledge gap, we analysed our single cell (sc)-RNA dataset along with other publicly available sc-RNA datasets from healthy controls, people with HIV-1 (PWH) and COVID-19 patients. We characterized each immune cell based on low, intermediate, and high expression of CD47 .
Results:
Our analyses revealed that CD47 high pDCs and monocytes exhibited relatively higher expression of IFN-α regulatory genes, antiviral interferon-stimulated genes (ISGs) and MHC-I associated genes compared to CD47 inter. and CD47 low cells. Furthermore, CD47 high NK and CD8+ T cells showed higher expression of antiviral ISGs, as well as genes encoding for cytotoxic markers like granzyme B, perforin, granulysin, interferon gamma and NKG7. Additionally, CD47 high CD8+ T cells expressed higher levels of PD-1 and LAG-3 genes. Lastly, we found that CD47 high B cells had enriched expression of genes involved in cell activation and humoral responses.
Conclusion:
Overall, our analyses revealed that innate and adaptive immune cells expressing elevated activation and functional gene signatures also express higher CD47 levels.
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