Journal article
Hypertension and renin-angiotensin system blockers are not associated with expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) in the kidney
X Jiang, JM Eales, D Scannali, A Nazgiewicz, P Prestes, M Maier, M Denniff, X Xu, S Saluja, E Cano-Gamez, W Wystrychowski, M Szulinska, A Antczak, S Byars, D Skrypnik, M Glyda, R Kró, J Zywiec, E Zukowska-Szczechowska, LM Burrell Show all
European Heart Journal | OXFORD UNIV PRESS | Published : 2020
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Abstract
Aims Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) is the cellular entry point for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) - the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the effect of renin-angiotensin system (RAS)-inhibition on ACE2 expression in human tissues of key relevance to blood pressure regulation and COVID-19 infection has not previously been reported. Methods and results We examined how hypertension, its major metabolic co-phenotypes, and antihypertensive medications relate to ACE2 renal expression using information from up to 436 patients whose kidney transcriptomes were characterized by RNA-sequencing. We further validated some of the key observations i..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by British Heart Foundation project grants [PG/17/35/33001 and PG/19/16/34270] and Kidney Research UK [grant RP_017_20180302] to M.T., British Heart Foundation Personal Chair [CH/13/2/30154] and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre: Tissue Bank Grant to BK, Medical University of Silesia [grants KNW-1-152/N/7/K to J.Z. and KNW-1-171/N/6/K to W.W.]. F.C. and S.H. were supported by a National Health and Medical Research project grant [APP1104686]. T.J.G. was supported by the European Research Council [InflammaTENSION; ERC-CoG-726318], T.J.G. also acknowledges support from ERA-CVD [PLAQUEFIGHT/5/2018]. L.M.B. acknowledges support from National Health and Medical Research Council Program [Grant APP1055214] and Medical Research Future Fund [APP 1175865]. G.T. is supported by Open Targets and the Wellcome Trust [grant WT206194]. E.C.G. is supported by the Gates Cambridge Scholarship [OPP1144]. Access to TCGA kidneys and GTEx data has been granted by NIH [approvals 50804-2 and 50805-2]. The results published here are in part based upon data generated by the TCGA Research Network: https://www.cancer.gov/tcga.We thank the Oxford Genomics Centre at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics funded by Wellcome Trust [grant reference 203141/Z/16/Z] for the generation and initial processing of sequencing data.