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SARS-CoV-2 Cell Entry Depends on ACE2 and TMPRSS2 and Is Blocked by a Clinically Proven Protease Inhibitor

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It is demonstrated that SARS-CoV-2 uses the SARS -CoV receptor ACE2 for entry and the serine protease TMPRSS2 for S protein priming, and it is shown that the sera from convalescent SARS patients cross-neutralized Sars-2-S-driven entry.
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This article is published in Cell.The article was published on 2020-04-16 and is currently open access. It has received 15362 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Proteases.

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Faecal calprotectin indicates intestinal inflammation in COVID-19.

TL;DR: This pilot study explored a relation between GI symptoms, intestinal inflammation (determined by FC) and faecal SARS-CoV-2-RNA in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 who did not require intensive care measures.
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Structure-based Design of Prefusion-stabilized SARS-CoV-2 Spikes

TL;DR: Over 100 structure-guided spike variants based upon a previously determined cryo-EM structure of the prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spike are designed and expressed, with the best variant, HexaPro, having six beneficial proline substitutions leading to ∼10-fold higher expression than its parental construct.
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Prevalence and characterization of asthma in hospitalized and nonhospitalized patients with COVID-19.

TL;DR: Despite a substantial prevalence of asthma in the COVID-19 cohort, asthma was not associated with an increased risk of hospitalization and the ongoing use of ICS did not increase the risk ofospitalization in a similar adjusted model.
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Furin cleavage of SARS-CoV-2 Spike promotes but is not essential for infection and cell-cell fusion.

TL;DR: This article showed that loss of furin in either donor or acceptor cells reduces, but does not prevent, TMPRSS2-dependent cell-cell fusion, unlike mutation of the multibasic site that completely prevents syncytia formation.
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