Molecular BiologybioRxivPreprint
The ancient cardioprotective mechanisms of ACE2 bestow SARS-CoV-2 with a wide host range
Gianni M. Castiglione, Lingli Zhou, Zhenhua Xu…·Elia J. Duh
The paper shows SARS-CoV-2 exploits ACE2's catalytic activity to infect a wide range of species through specific mutations that block viral binding.