I wonder if the publication found this or the caus

I wonder if the publication found this or the cause. Interesting tcells are low on ace2.


https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/artic...protective

Coronavirus could attack immune system like HIV by targeting protective cells, warn scientists

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The reason, they suspected, was the lack of a membrane fusion function. Sars, which killed hundreds in a 2003 outbreak, can only infect cells carrying a specific receptor protein known as ACE2, and this protein has an extremely low presence in T cells.
Further investigations into the coronavirus infection on primary T cells would evoke “new ideas about pathogenic mechanisms and therapeutic interventions”, the researchers said in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Cellular & Molecular Immunology this week.

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