Screening and testing for a suitable untransfected cell line for SARS-CoV-2 studies
Claudia Pommerenke, Ulfert Rand, Cord C. Uphoff, Stefan Nagel, Margarete Zaborski, Vivian Hauer, Maren Kaufmann, Corinna Meyer, Sabine A. Denkmann, Peggy Riese, Kathrin Eschke, Yeonsu Kim, Zeljka Macak Safranko, Ivan-Christian Kurolt, Alemka Markotic, , Laura Steenpaß
The paper screens human cell lines for SARS-CoV-2 permissiveness by analyzing ACE2 and TMPRSS2 expression and finds that receptor expression alone does not guarantee viral infection.
bioRxiv · Jul 9, 2020Cell Biology