Sputum ACE2, TMPRSS2 and
FURIN gene expression in severe neutrophilic asthma
Nazanin Zounemat Kermani1*, Woo-Jung
Song2, 3*, Yusef Badi1,2, Ali
Versi1,2, Yike Guo1, Kai
Sun1, Pank Bhavsar2, Peter
Howarth4, Sven-Erik Dahlen5, Peter J
Sterk6, Ratko Djukanovic4, Ian M
Adcock1,2, Kian Fan Chung1,2 on
behalf the U-BIOPRED Consortium
1Data Science Institute, Imperial College London,
United Kingdom; 2National Heart & Lung Institute,
Imperial College London; 3Department of Allergy and
Clinical Immunology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of
Medicine, Seoul, Korea; 4Faculty of Medicine,
Southampton University, Southampton, UK and NIHR Southampton Respiratory
Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton,
UK; 5Centre for Allergy Research, Karolinska
Institute, Stockholm, Sweden; 6Amsterdam University
Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
*Contributed equally.
Running title : ACE2, TMPRSS2 and FURIN in severe asthma