Engineered ACE2-Fc counters murine lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection through direct neutralization and Fc-effector activities
Y. Chen, L. Sun, I. Ullah, G. Beaudoin-Bussieres, S. P. Anand, A. P. Hederman, W. D. Tolbert, R. Sherburn, D. N. Nguyen, L. Marchitto, S. Ding, D. Wu, Y. Luo, S. Gottumukkala, S. Moran, , M. Pazgier
The paper develops ACE2-Fc molecules that neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and show Fc-effector activity, effectively treating lethal infection in mice.
bioRxiv · Nov 24, 2021Microbiology