MicrobiologybioRxiv
Highly efficient SARS-CoV-2 infection of human cardiomyocytes: spike protein-mediated cell fusion and its inhibition
C. K. Navaratnarajah, D. R. Pease, P. Halfmann…·Boyd Rasmussen and Frank J. Secreto, Timothy J. Nelson (Director)
This paper shows SARS-CoV-2 efficiently infects human cardiomyocytes via spike protein-mediated fusion, which is inhibited by furin blockade.
DOI 10.1128/jvi.01368-21