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, B. Taye, A. Barkhymer, K. G. Howell, J. E. Charlesworth, T. A. Christensen, Y. Kawaoka, R. Cattaneo, J. W. Schneider, 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.
bioRxiv · Jul 30, 2021Microbiology