Volume 309, Issue 1 pp. 25-39
INVITED REVIEW

Tissue immunity to SARS-CoV-2: Role in protection and immunopathology*

Ksenia Rybkina

Ksenia Rybkina

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA

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Julia Davis-Porada

Julia Davis-Porada

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA

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Donna L. Farber

Corresponding Author

Donna L. Farber

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA

Department of Surgery, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

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Donna L. Farber, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA.

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First published: 25 June 2022
Citations: 6

*This article is part of a series of reviews covering SARS-CoV-2 Immunity appearing in Volume 309 of Immunological Reviews.

Ksenia Rybkina and Julia Davis-Porada contributed equally to this study.

Summary

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has demonstrated the importance of studying antiviral immunity within sites of infection to gain insights into mechanisms for immune protection and disease pathology. As SARS-CoV-2 is tropic to the respiratory tract, many studies of airway washes, lymph node aspirates, and postmortem lung tissue have revealed site-specific immune dynamics that are associated with the protection or immunopathology but are not readily observed in circulation. This review summarizes the growing body of work identifying immune processes in tissues and their interplay with immune responses in circulation during acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, severe disease, and memory persistence. Establishment of tissue resident immunity also may have implications for vaccination and the durability of immune memory and protection.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

There are no conflicts of interest.

DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT

Data sharing not applicable to this article as no datasets were generated or analysed during the current study

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