The SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein disrupts human cardiac pericytes function through CD147-receptor-mediated signalling: a potential non-infective mechanism of COVID-19 microvascular disease
E. Avolio, M. Carrabba, R. Milligan…·P. Madeddu
This paper shows that SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein causes cardiac pericyte dysfunction through CD147-mediated signaling, without infecting the cells.