“…SNX-5422 dampened expression of cellular genes, previously shown to be associated with SARS-CoV-2 -mediated proinflammatory response and hyper-cytokinemia (Figure 3B). Specifically, these inflammatory genes could be broadly categorized into chemokines ( CXCL1 (Coperchini et al, 2020) , CXCL5 (Coperchini et al, 2020) , CXCL6 (Blanco-Melo et al, 2020) , CXCL3 (Blanco-Melo et al, 2020) and CXCL2 (Zhou et al, 2020a)), chemokine-receptor ligands ( CCL20 (Zhou et al, 2020a) , CX3CL1 (Nienhold et al, 2020)), cytokines ( IL36G (Xiong et al, 2020)), interleukins ( IL-19 (Vastrad et al, 2020) , CXCL8 (Zhou et al, 2020a) , IL-32 (Blanco-Melo et al, 2020)), tumor necrosis factor alpha-induced protein ( TNFAIP2 (Fagone et al, 2020)), regulators of inflammatory responses ( CSF3 (Nunnari et al, 2020) , S100A8 (Zhou et al, 2020a) , S100A9 (Zhou et al, 2020a) , SCGB3A1 (Mick et al, 2020) , S100A2 (Xu et al, 2020)) and interferon-induced proteins ( RSAD2 (Zhou et al, 2020a), IFI44L (Mick et al, 2020), IFITM1 (Zhou et al, 2020a) , MX2 (Lieberman et al, 2020), IFI27 ( Mick et al, 2020) , ISG15 (Zhou et al, 2020a) ). Collectively, our analysis suggests that early treatment with SNX-5422 may mitigate SARS-CoV-2-mediated hyperinflammation, thereby improving clinical outcomes of COVID-19.…”