Dynamic label-free analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals virus-induced subcellular remodeling, 2023, Saunders et al.

Dynamic label-free analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals virus-induced subcellular remodeling
Nell Saunders; Blandine Monel; Nadege Cayet; Lorenzo Archetti; Hugo Moreno; Alexandre Jeanne; Agathe Marguier; Timothy Wai; Olivier Schwartz; Mathieu Frechin

Assessing the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on organelle dynamics allows a better understanding of the mechanisms of viral replication.

We combine label-free holo-tomographic microscopy (HTM) with Artificial Intelligence (AI) to visualize and quantify the subcellular changes triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection. We study the dynamics of shape, position and dry mass of nucleoli, nuclei, lipid droplets (LD) and mitochondria within hundreds of single cells from early infection to syncytia formation and death. SARS-CoV-2 infection enlarges nucleoli, perturbs LD, changes mitochondrial shape and dry mass, and separates LD from mitochondria. We then used Bayesian statistics on organelle dry mass states to define organelle cross-regulation (OCR) networks and report modifications of OCR that are triggered by infection and syncytia formation.

Our work highlights the subcellular remodeling induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection and provides a new AI-enhanced, label-free methodology to study in real-time the dynamics of cell populations and their content.


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Dynamic label-free analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals virus-induced subcellular remodeling (2024)
Saunders, Nell; Monel, Blandine; Cayet, Nadège; Archetti, Lorenzo; Moreno, Hugo; Jeanne, Alexandre; Marguier, Agathe; Buchrieser, Julian; Wai, Timothy; Schwartz, Olivier; Fréchin, Mathieu

Assessing the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on organelle dynamics allows a better understanding of the mechanisms of viral replication. We combine label-free holotomographic microscopy with Artificial Intelligence to visualize and quantify the subcellular changes triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection.

We study the dynamics of shape, position and dry mass of nucleoli, nuclei, lipid droplets and mitochondria within hundreds of single cells from early infection to syncytia formation and death. SARS-CoV-2 infection enlarges nucleoli, perturbs lipid droplets, changes mitochondrial shape and dry mass, and separates lipid droplets from mitochondria. We then used Bayesian network modeling on organelle dry mass states to define organelle cross-regulation networks and report modifications of organelle cross-regulation that are triggered by infection and syncytia formation.

Our work highlights the subcellular remodeling induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection and provides an Artificial Intelligence enhanced, label-free methodology to study in real-time the dynamics of cell populations and their content.

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