MicrobiologybioRxiv
SARS-CoV-2 requires acidic pH to infect cells
A. J. B. Kreutzberger, A. Sanyal, A. Saminathan…·T. Kirchhausen
This study shows SARS-CoV-2 requires acidic pH for membrane fusion and genome release, even after proteolytic cleavage by furin or TMPRSS2.
DOI 10.1073/pnas.2209514119