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Kidney injury molecule-1 is a potential receptor for SARS-CoV-2
2020-10-10
Abstract excerpt
COVID-19 patients present high incidence of kidney abnormalities, which are associated with poor prognosis and high mortality. Identification of SARS-CoV-2 in kidney of COVID-19 patients suggests renal tropism and direct infection. Presently, it is generally recognized that SARS-CoV-2 initiates invasion through binding of receptor-binding domain (RBD) of spike protein to host cell-membrane receptor ACE2, however,...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a72385a1-a12b-53a0-937c-4c5a813af4e1
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.10.09.334052
