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The ACE2 expression in human heart indicates new potential mechanism of heart injury among patients infected with SARS-CoV-2
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A new type of pneumonia caused by a novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks recently in China and spreads into many other countries. This disease, named as COVID-19, is similar to patients infected by SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, and nearly 20% of patients developed severe condition. Cardiac injury is a prevalent complication of severe patients, exacerbating the disease severity in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), the key host cellular receptor of SARS-CoV-2, has been identified in multiple organs, but its cellular distribution in human heart is not illuminated clearly. This study performed the first state-of-art single cell atlas of adult human heart, and revealed that pericytes with high expression of ACE2 might act as the target cardiac cell of SARS-CoV-2. The pericytes injury due to virus infection may result in capillary endothelial cells dysfunction, inducing microvascular dysfunction. And patients with basic heart failure disease showed increased ACE2 expression at both mRNA and protein levels, meaning that if infected by the virus these patients may have higher risk of heart attack and critically ill condition. The finding of this study explains the high rate of severe cases among COVID-19 patients with basic cardiovascular disease; and these results also perhaps provide important reference to clinical treatment of cardiac injury among severe patients infected by SARS-CoV-2.
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BackgroundInfluentialPreadmission Statin Treatment and Outcome in Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19
Saad, M. S., Kennedy, K., Louis, D. W., Imran, H. M., Sherrod, C., Aspry, K. E., Mentias, A. G., Poppas, A., Abbott, J. D., & Aronow, H. D. (2022) · The American Journal of Cardiology · doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2022.04.045 · Cited by 11
“Nonischemic myocardial injury may also result from direct injury to myocytes by SARS-CoV-2 through angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptors.(17) The ability of statin treatment to ameliorate myocardial injury has been established in other settings.”
BackgroundWang, H., Guo, Z., Zheng, Y., & Chen, B. (2022) · BMC Cardiovascular Disorders · doi:10.1186/s12872-022-02702-w · Cited by 12
“Some researchers have tried to detect the possible association between COVID-19 infection and HF [10, 11].”
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“4,11 ACE-2 receptors are usually upregulated in patients with heart failure making them more susceptible to SAR-CoV-2 virus-induced myocardial in fl ammation and necrosis.”
BackgroundLong COVID and its cardiovascular consequences: What is known?
Składanek, J. A., Leśkiewicz, M., Gumiężna, K., Baruś, P., Piasecki, A., Klimczak‐Tomaniak, D., Sygitowicz, G., Kochman, J., Grabowski, M., & Tomaniak, M. (2023) · Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine · doi:10.17219/acem/167482 · Cited by 11
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“Viral load also correlates strongly with disease severity (lung injury in particular) [9], while virus-induced endothelial dysfunction contributes to acute cardiac events that are a recognized complication of COVID-19 [10].”
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ACE2 and TMPRSS2 Immunolocalization and COVID-19-Related Thyroid Disorder
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“Therefore, infected pericyte by SARS-CoV-2 can lead to impairment to the blood–brain barrier, resulting in neurological symptoms [20,24], and cardiac pericyte infection can cause acute cardiac injury [21,25,26].”
BackgroundMechanism of COVID-19-Induced Cardiac Damage from Patient, In Vitro and Animal Studies
Jones, E. A. V. (2023) · Current Heart Failure Reports · doi:10.1007/s11897-023-00618-w · Cited by 11
“In papers that specifically looked at the heart, only cardiomyocytes and pericytes were found to have any significant expression of ACE2 [46, 48, 49].”
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COVID-19 and Cardiovascular Health Among Patients with Cancer
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Impact of Cardiovascular Diseases on COVID-19: A Systematic Review
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“A single-cell atlas of the human heart revealed high and specific expression on pericytes that have angiopoietin ligands (ANGPT1/2)–Tie receptor (TIE2) crosstalk with capillary endothelial cells, thus affecting the function of capillary vessels [11], indicating SARS-CoV-2 might cause micro-circulation disorder via ACE…”
BackgroundCOVID-19: The Impact on Cardiovascular System
Šikić, J., Planinić, Z., Matišić, V., Friščić, T., Molnar, V., Jagačić, D., Vujičić, L., Tudorić, N., Gršić, L. P., Ljubičić, Đ., et al. (2021) · Biomedicines · doi:10.3390/biomedicines9111691 · Cited by 10
“The ACE2 receptor, which is vastly concentrated in lung alveolar cells, can also be found on the endothelium of blood vessels and cardiac myocytes [28,29].”
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“These results support the important role of ACE2 protein in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection reported in other studies.(31,32) Both Kim‐ 1 and NRP‐1 proteins might contribute to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection,”
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“14 Amongst several theories of protective mechanisms in the paediatric age group, the lower number and immaturity of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 in children has been speculated to be one of the reasons for the milder nature of COVID-19.”
Jashari, R., Esbroeck, M. V., Vanhaebost, J., Micalessi, I. M., Kerschen, A., & Mastrobuoni, S. (2021) · Cell and Tissue Banking · doi:10.1007/s10561-021-09913-z · Cited by 10
“In the same sense, some publications have reported no viral presence in the breast milk (Chen 2020, Kam 2020).”
BackgroundResultManagement of inflammatory bowel disease during COVID-19 pandemic
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“Thus, presumably, dysfunctions of these cells can lead to disruptions in downstream myocardial circulation and subsequent ischemia (13).”
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Cardiovascular System during SARS-CoV-2 Infection
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“Like SARS-CoV-1 [72], SARS-CoV-2 uses its SPIKE protein to bind to the ACE2-receptor, which can also be found on the surface of a host cell [63,73,74] and in heart tissue [75].”
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“The receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 might bind tightly with human ACE2, which was strongly expressed in pericytes of human hearts, indicating the potential susceptibility of cardiomyocytes to SARS-CoV-2 (Chen et al. 2020).”
BackgroundCOVID-19-associated myocarditis: clinical pattern and medical treatment
Sergeeva, V. A., & Te, L. (2022) · Russian Medical Inquiry · doi:10.32364/2587-6821-2022-6-1-26-32 · Cited by 9
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“In turn, myocardial damage puts patients at a risk of developing atherosclerosis.[52] The most commonly reported complication was hypertension, which was observed in approximately 40% of the patients.”
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“Patients with COVID-19 may be more susceptible to cardiac injuries due to ACE-2’s lack of cardioprotective activity, or patients with heart failure may be more susceptible to catching SARS-CoV-2 and experiencing associated cardiac damage (47).”
BackgroundCOVID -19 pandemic and paediatric population with special reference to congenital heart disease
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SARS-CoV-2 (COVID 19) Infection in Hypertensive Patients and in Patients With Cardiac Disease
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“Pericyte injury could then lead to endothelial dysfunction [32].”
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A Perspective on Personalized Therapies in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
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“There are studies reporting high levels of virus not in myocytes, but cells of the endothelial compartment and pericytes 40, 41 , However, these studies were not carried out in hearts of HCM COVID-19 patients.”
Atrial Arrhythmias in Patients with Severe COVID-19
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“Interestingly, recent single cell sequencing (scSeq) data suggest that the high expression level of ACE2 in pericytes may cause endothelial dysfunction during SARS-CoV-2 virus infection [4].”
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“All the vascular cells, including ECs, smooth muscle cells, and accessory pericytes express ACE2, as well as the Transmembrane Serine Protease 22 (TMPRSS2) protease [30,31], which cuts Spike, the SARS-CoV-2 protein mediating the binding of the virus to ACE2 and cell infection, at the S1/S2 and S2′ sites and is respons…”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chen, L., Li, X., Chen, M., Feng, Y., & Xiong, C.
- Affiliations
- Fudan University (CN)
- Renmin University of China (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Chen, Liang
- Xiong, Chenglong
- Venue
- Cardiovascular Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020-03-30
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1097-1100
- ISSN
- 0008-6363 (ISSN-L)
- 1755-3245
- PMC
- PMC7184507
- OpenAlex
- W3014027512
- Cited by
- 1,163
- References
- 7
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 32 · 2024: 64 · 2023: 148 · 2022: 210 · 2021: 332 · 2020: 355
- FWCI
- 34.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model (vor)
- Locations
- Cardiovascular Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (81872673)
- National Key Research and Development Program of China (2017YFC1200203)
- Fudan University
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Renin-Angiotensin System Studies
- Keywords
- ACE2, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 pandemic, cardiac injury, pericytes, microvascular dysfunction, heart failure, viral receptor expression, myocardial injury
- MeSH terms
- Betacoronavirus, Receptors, Coronavirus, Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Heart, Heart Diseases, Humans, Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A, Myocardium, Pneumonia, Viral, Receptors, Virus, Gene Expression, Coronavirus Infections, Pericytes, Gene Expression Profiling, Pandemics, Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus
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