Lethality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in K18 human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 transgenic mice

Here, the authors characterize tissue-level SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis in transgenic mice expressing human angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (hACE2) by the human cytokeratin 18 promoter (K18-hACE2) and show that infection induces lethality, making the K18-hACE2 model suitable for vaccine an...

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Main Authors: Fatai S. Oladunni, Jun-Gyu Park, Paula A. Pino, Olga Gonzalez, Anwari Akhter, Anna Allué-Guardia, Angélica Olmo-Fontánez, Shalini Gautam, Andreu Garcia-Vilanova, Chengjin Ye, Kevin Chiem, Colwyn Headley, Varun Dwivedi, Laura M. Parodi, Kendra J. Alfson, Hilary M. Staples, Alyssa Schami, Juan I. Garcia, Alison Whigham, Roy Neal Platt, Michal Gazi, Jesse Martinez, Colin Chuba, Stephanie Earley, Oscar H. Rodriguez, Stephanie Davis Mdaki, Katrina N. Kavelish, Renee Escalona, Cory R. A. Hallam, Corbett Christie, Jean L. Patterson, Tim J. C. Anderson, Ricardo Carrion, Edward J. Dick, Shannan Hall-Ursone, Larry S. Schlesinger, Xavier Alvarez, Deepak Kaushal, Luis D. Giavedoni, Joanne Turner, Luis Martinez-Sobrido, Jordi B. Torrelles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19891-7

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