SARS-CoV-2 causes lung infection without severe disease in human ACE2 knock-in mice

ES Winkler, RE Chen, F Alam, S Yildiz, JB Case… - Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
… that normally governs ACE2 levels, some aspects of infection or … In this study, we evaluated
SARS-CoV-2 infection of mice … Human ACE2 was expressed in the nasal turbinate, lung, …

[HTML][HTML] 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
… in humans who have been hospitalized. Here, we evaluate transgenic mice expressing the
human angiotensin I-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) … -CoV-2 infection. Intranasal inoculation of …

Influenza virus infection increases ACE2 expression and shedding in human small airway epithelial cells

KS Schweitzer, T Crue, JM Nall, D Foster… - European …, 2021 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… Results We found, using single-cell RNA sequencing of distal human nondiseased lung
recombinant human ACE2 protein and cell lysates from HEK cells overexpressing human ACE2

A SARS-CoV-2-related virus from malayan pangolin causes lung infection without severe disease in human ACE2-transgenic mice

MQ Liu, HF Lin, J Li, Y Chen, Y Luo, W Zhang… - Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
… , human ACE2-transgenic mice, and human ACE2 knock-in mice. Body weight changes,
viral genome copies in organ tissues, and the lung histopathology of infectedinfection risk of …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus infection causes neuronal death in the absence of encephalitis in mice transgenic for human ACE2

J Netland, DK Meyerholz, S Moore, M Cassell… - Journal of …, 2008 - Am Soc Microbiol
… of the brain was the major contributory factor in a fatal outcome, we also detected changes
in the lungs consistent with aspiration, present only in K18-hACE2 mice at day 4 pi, that …

[PDF][PDF] Systematic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 infection of an ACE2-negative human airway cell

M Puray-Chavez, KM LaPak, TP Schrank, JL Elliott… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
… CoV-2 infection, we identify human H522 lung adenocarcinoma cells as … infection, we
infected a panel of human lung and head/neck cancer cell lines expressing varying levels of ACE2

SARS-CoV-2 infection in the lungs of human ACE2 transgenic mice causes severe inflammation, immune cell infiltration, and compromised respiratory function

ES Winkler, AL Bailey, NM Kafai, S Nair, BT McCune… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
human cases. Here, we evaluate heterozygous transgenic mice expressing the human ACE2
… hACE2) as a model of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Intranasal inoculation of SARS-CoV-2 in K18…

Assessing ACE2 expression patterns in lung tissues in the pathogenesis of COVID-19

G Li, X He, L Zhang, Q Ran, J Wang, A Xiong… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
… susceptible to coronavirus infection than the healthy population. To do this, we analyzed
the expression of ACE2 in lung in different populations. The expression level of ACE2 was not …

[HTML][HTML] Severe respiratory SARS-CoV2 infection: Does ACE2 receptor matter?

F Perrotta, MG Matera, M Cazzola, A Bianco - Respiratory medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
… Focus of this review is to dissect the knowledge on ACE2 receptor on airway and lung
epithelium and attempt to understand whether underlying diseases or therapies are able to …

[HTML][HTML] Human lungs show limited permissiveness for SARS-CoV-2 due to scarce ACE2 levels but virus-induced expansion of inflammatory macrophages

K Hönzke, B Obermayer, C Mache… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
… vivo infected human lung tissue, COVID-19 autopsy material and adult stem cell derived
human lung organoids, we demonstrate scarce ACE2 … significant induction of ACE2 protein by …