tenOever LaboratoryVirology · Host defense · RNA biology
Pathogens

Human coronavirus OC43

Coronaviridae

Recorded terms: human coronavirus OC43

2022 · Cell · co-led

Non-cell-autonomous disruption of nuclear architecture as a potential cause of COVID-19-induced anosmia

SARS-CoV-2 infection of the olfactory epithelium reorganizes the nuclear architecture of uninfected olfactory sensory neurons, dissipating the interchromosomal compartments that hold olfactory receptor genes and suppressing receptor and signal transduction transcription in both hamsters and human autopsy tissue.