Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape?
Abstract There is an unmet clinical need to end the COVID‐19 pandemic. In the past 2 years, the SARS‐CoV‐2 continued to evolve and poses a critical challenge to the efficacy of the vaccine and neutralizing antibody therapies. The fifth wave of the pandemic is driven by the Omicron variants, due to t...
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| description | Abstract There is an unmet clinical need to end the COVID‐19 pandemic. In the past 2 years, the SARS‐CoV‐2 continued to evolve and poses a critical challenge to the efficacy of the vaccine and neutralizing antibody therapies. The fifth wave of the pandemic is driven by the Omicron variants, due to their ability to evade prior immunity and their resistance to therapeutic antibodies. The report by Zhang et al in the current issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine shows that the engineered decoy ACE2 can reduce lung injury and improve survival in K18‐hACE2 transgenic mice inoculated with a lethal dose of the SARS‐CoV‐2 and potentially targets the Omicron variant. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-5c940338508c46b1bb5178ffd9b4cb732025-08-20T02:11:21ZengSpringer NatureEMBO Molecular Medicine1757-46761757-46842022-10-0114111210.15252/emmm.202216818Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape?Kuo‐Yen Huang0Ming‐Shiu Lin1Pan‐Chyr Yang2YongLin Institute of Health, National Taiwan UniversityInstitute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia SinicaYongLin Institute of Health, National Taiwan UniversityAbstract There is an unmet clinical need to end the COVID‐19 pandemic. In the past 2 years, the SARS‐CoV‐2 continued to evolve and poses a critical challenge to the efficacy of the vaccine and neutralizing antibody therapies. The fifth wave of the pandemic is driven by the Omicron variants, due to their ability to evade prior immunity and their resistance to therapeutic antibodies. The report by Zhang et al in the current issue of EMBO Molecular Medicine shows that the engineered decoy ACE2 can reduce lung injury and improve survival in K18‐hACE2 transgenic mice inoculated with a lethal dose of the SARS‐CoV‐2 and potentially targets the Omicron variant.https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202216818 |
| spellingShingle | Kuo‐Yen Huang Ming‐Shiu Lin Pan‐Chyr Yang Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape? EMBO Molecular Medicine |
| title | Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape? |
| title_full | Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape? |
| title_fullStr | Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape? |
| title_short | Using host receptor as a decoy to treat COVID‐19: a solution for immune escape? |
| title_sort | using host receptor as a decoy to treat covid 19 a solution for immune escape |
| url | https://doi.org/10.15252/emmm.202216818 |
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