(a) Negative control of PLISH in human lung alveoli. Left shows scrambled probe detection in three indicated colors. Right shows HTII-280 antibody staining (red) with 2 color scramble probe detection. DAPI (blue) indicates nuclei. (b) Frequency of ACE2, CTLS and TMPRSS2 triple positive cells in each sample (n = 60) (dots) in the Regev/Rajagopal dataset. (c) PLISH and immunostaining in human adult lung alveoli for ACE2 (red), PRO-SFTPC (green), DAPI (blue).
(d) Immunostaining in human adult lung alveoli. HTII-280 (green) , TMPRSS2 (red) and AGER (white). Blue shows DAPI in nuclei. (e) Mean expression (y axis, FPKM, from bulk RNA-seq, error bars: standard error) of ACE2, CTSL, TMPRSS2 in sorted cells from 3 different human explant donors using the following markers: large and small airway basal cells (NGFR+), AT2 cells (HT-II 280+) and alveolar organoids (HT-II 280+). (f) Expression in the submucosal gland. Mean expression (color) and proportion of expressing cells (dot size) of ACE2, TMPRSS2 and CTSL in key cell types (rows), from scRNA-seq of human large airway submucosal glands. (g) PLISH and immunostaining in human large airway submucosal glands. ACE2 (red), ACTA2 (green) and DAPI (blue). We imaged one representative area for a single patient for a,c,d,g (Methods).