Background The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS‐CoV‐2)
disease 2019 (COVID‐19) seems to have a worse clinical course among infected men …

TMPRSS2 is a type II transmembrane protease with broad expression in epithelial cells of
the respiratory and gastrointestinal tract, the prostate, and other organs. Although the …

Individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 who also display hyperglycemia suffer from longer
hospital stays, higher risk of developing acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and …

Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) initiated in December 2019 in Wuhan,
China and became pandemic causing high fatality and disrupted normal life calling world …

SARS-CoV-2 is a respiratory pathogen and primarily infects the airway epithelium. As our
knowledge about innate immune factors of the respiratory tract against SARS-CoV-2 is …

SARS-CoV-2 is the viral pathogen causing the COVID19 global pandemic. Consequently,
much research has gone into the development of preclinical assays for the discovery of new …

ETS-related gene (ERG) is a member of the E-26 transformation-specific (ETS) family of
transcription factors with roles in development that include vasculogenesis, angiogenesis …

Discovered in the 1990s, protease activated receptors 1 (PARs) are membrane-spanning
cell surface proteins that belong to the G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) family. A defining …

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already caused over a million deaths worldwide, and
this death toll will be much higher before effective treatments and vaccines are available …

Host cell proteases that cleave the hemagglutinin (HA) of influenza viruses in the human
respiratory tract are still not identified. Here we cloned two human type II transmembrane …