Alpha-1 antitrypsin inhibits TMPRSS2 protease activity and SARS-CoV-2 infection

Alpha-1 antitrypsin inhibits TMPRSS2 protease activity and SARS-CoV-2 infection

Here, via screening of a polypeptide library from bronchoalveolar lavage, the authors identify and characterize α1-antitrypsin (α1AT) as SARS-CoV-2 inhibitor and show that α1AT binds and inactivates the serine protease TMPRSS2, which enzymatically primes the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for membrane fus...

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Main Authors: Lukas Wettstein, Tatjana Weil, Carina Conzelmann, Janis A. Müller, Rüdiger Groß, Maximilian Hirschenberger, Alina Seidel, Susanne Klute, Fabian Zech, Caterina Prelli Bozzo, Nico Preising, Giorgio Fois, Robin Lochbaum, Philip Maximilian Knaff, Volker Mailänder, Ludger Ständker, Dietmar Rudolf Thal, Christian Schumann, Steffen Stenger, Alexander Kleger, Günter Lochnit, Benjamin Mayer, Yasser B. Ruiz-Blanco, Markus Hoffmann, Konstantin M. J. Sparrer, Stefan Pöhlmann, Elsa Sanchez-Garcia, Frank Kirchhoff, Manfred Frick, Jan Münch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21972-0

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21972-0

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