SARS-CoV-2 infection of primary human lung epithelium for COVID-19 modeling and drug discovery

A Mulay, B Konda, G Garcia, C Yao, S Beil, JM Villalba… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
… the distal lung and associated inflammation. In this study, we develop primary human lung
… responses of proximal and distal lung epithelium to SARS-CoV-2 infection. Differentiated air-…

Host and viral determinants for efficient SARS-CoV-2 infection of the human lung

H Chu, B Hu, X Huang, Y Chai, D Zhou, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV infection of the human lungs, we treated ex vivo human lung
tissues with NA, followed by SARS-CoV-2 or SARS-CoV challenge. Our results showed that …

SARS-CoV-2 pathogenesis

MM Lamers, BL Haagmans - Nature reviews microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a devastating pandemic. Although most people
infected with SARS-CoV-… cells are the progenitor cells of AT1 cells in the adult human lung 38 . …

SARS-CoV-2 induces transcriptional signatures in human lung epithelial cells that promote lung fibrosis

J Xu, X Xu, L Jiang, K Dua, PM Hansbro, G Liu - Respiratory research, 2020 - Springer
… Clinically, SARS-CoV-2 infection may result in acute lung injury and … measured in human
epithelial cells after 24 h SARS-CoV-2 infection, or in existing datasets of lung fibrosis patients. …

Remdesivir inhibits SARS-CoV-2 in human lung cells and chimeric SARS-CoV expressing the SARS-CoV-2 RNA polymerase in mice

AJ Pruijssers, AS George, A Schäfer, SR Leist… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 replication in Calu3 human lung cells with sub-micromolar 50% maximal effective
concentration (EC 50 ) and in primary human … of RDV in established human and monkey …

Comparative replication and immune activation profiles of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV in human lungs: an ex vivo study with implications for the pathogenesis of …

H Chu, JFW Chan, Y Wang, TTT Yuen… - Clinical Infectious …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… changes and host response in the human lung induced by SARS-CoV-2 was almost never …
In this study, we used ex vivo human lung tissue challenged by SARS-CoV-2 with SARS-CoV

A multibasic cleavage site in the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 is essential for infection of human lung cells

M Hoffmann, H Kleine-Weber, S Pöhlmann - Molecular cell, 2020 - cell.com
… ) but are present in the human coronaviruses OC43, HKU1, and MERS-CoV (Figure 1C).
However, the contribution of this multibasic cleavage site to SARS-CoV-2 infection of human

Chloroquine does not inhibit infection of human lung cells with SARS-CoV-2

M Hoffmann, K Mösbauer, H Hofmann-Winkler, A Kaul… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 for entry into lung cells 4 , renders SARS-CoV-2 … with SARS-CoV-2 in the
TMPRSS2-expressing human lung … in lung cells and is unlikely to protect against the spread of …

SARS-CoV-2 infection is effectively treated and prevented by EIDD-2801

A Wahl, LE Gralinski, CE Johnson, W Yao, M Kovarova… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
… We inoculated the human lung tissues of LoM with SARS-CoV-2, and determined titres of
replication-competent virus at 2, 6 and 14 days after exposure (Fig. 1c, Extended Data Table 2)…

SARS-CoV-2 infection of human ACE2-transgenic mice causes severe lung inflammation and impaired function

ES Winkler, AL Bailey, NM Kafai, S Nair… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… To correlate histopathological findings with sites of SARS-CoV-2 infection, we also
stained lung sections for viral RNA using in situ hybridization (Fig. 2b). At 2 dpi, expression of …