ACE2 is the critical in vivo receptor for SARS-CoV-2 in a novel COVID-19 mouse model with TNF-and IFNγ-driven immunopathology

R Gawish, P Starkl, L Pimenov, A Hladik, K Lakovits… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Despite tremendous progress in the understanding of COVID-19, mechanistic insight into
immunological, disease-driving factors remains limited. We generated maVie16, a mouse …

A broadly neutralizing humanized ACE2-targeting antibody against SARS-CoV-2 variants

Y Du, R Shi, Y Zhang, X Duan, L Li, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The successive emergences and accelerating spread of novel severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineages and evolved resistance to some ongoing …

Characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Spike mutations important for infection of mice and escape from human immune sera

R Rathnasinghe, S Jangra, C Ye, A Cupic… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Due to differences in human and murine angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE-2) receptor,
initially available SARS-CoV-2 isolates could not infect mice. Here we show that serial …

A mouse model for SARS-CoV-2-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome

W Hong, J Yang, Z Bi, C He, H Lei, W Yu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has covered more than 200 countries and regions around the
world since its outbreak in January 2020. To date, the SARS-CoV-2 virus has caused> 1.2 …

Experimental models of COVID-19

LA Caldera-Crespo, MJ Paidas, S Roy… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 is the most consequential pandemic of the 21st century. Since the earliest stage
of the 2019-2020 epidemic, animal models have been useful in understanding the …

Organ‐protective effect of angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 and its effect on the prognosis of COVID‐19

H Cheng, Y Wang, GQ Wang - Journal of medical virology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article reviews the correlation between angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) and
severe risk factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and the possible mechanisms …

Engineered ACE2 decoy mitigates lung injury and death induced by SARS-CoV-2 variants

L Zhang, S Dutta, S Xiong, M Chan, KK Chan… - Nature chemical …, 2022 - nature.com
Vaccine hesitancy and emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) variants of concern (VOCs) escaping vaccine-induced immune responses …

SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 is an interferon-stimulated gene in human airway epithelial cells and is detected in specific cell subsets across tissues

CGK Ziegler, SJ Allon, SK Nyquist, IM Mbano, VN Miao… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
There is pressing urgency to understand the pathogenesis of the severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus clade 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the disease COVID-19. SARS …

[HTML][HTML] A single-dose intranasal ChAd vaccine protects upper and lower respiratory tracts against SARS-CoV-2

AO Hassan, NM Kafai, IP Dmitriev, JM Fox, BK Smith… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has made deployment of an effective vaccine a
global health priority. We evaluated the protective activity of a chimpanzee adenovirus …

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein suppresses ACE2 and type I interferon expression in primary cells from macaque lung bronchoalveolar lavage

Y Sui, J Li, DJ Venzon, JA Berzofsky - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
SARS-CoV-2 virus causes upper and lower respiratory diseases including pneumonia, and
in some cases, leads to lethal pulmonary failure. Angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE2) …