Cigarette smoke preferentially induces full length ACE2 exposure in primary human airway cells but does not alter susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection
W. Guo, B. Ortmann, T. Crozier…·L. Porter
The paper investigates how cigarette smoke affects ACE2 expression in airway cells and finds it increases full-length ACE2 without increasing SARS-CoV-2 infectivity.