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Hypoxia reduces cell attachment of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by modulating the expression of ACE2 and heparan sulfate (preprint)
biorxiv; 2021.
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in English
| bioRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2021.01.09.426021
ABSTRACT
A main clinical parameter of Covid-19 pathophysiology is hypoxia. Here we show that hypoxia decreases the attachment of the receptor binding domain (RBD) and the S1 subunit (S1) of the spike protein to epithelial cells. In Vero E6 cells, hypoxia reduces the protein levels of ACE2, which might in part explain the observed reduction of the infection rate. However, hypoxia also inhibits the binding of the spike to human lung epithelial cells lacking ACE2 expression, indicating that hypoxia modulates the expression of additional binding partners of SARS-CoV-2. We show that hypoxia also decreases the total cell surface levels of heparan sulfate, a known attachment receptor of SARS-CoV-2, by reducing the expression of syndecan-1 and syndecan3, the main proteoglycans containing heparan sulfate. Our study indicates that hypoxia acts to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting that the hypoxia signaling pathway might offer therapeutic opportunities for the treatment of Covid-19.
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bioRxiv
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Infections
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Hypoxia
Language:
English
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Preprint
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