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ReviewViruses2021

Killing Two Birds with One Stone by Administration of Soluble ACE2: A Promising Strategy to Treat Both Cardiovascular Diseases and SARS-CoV-2 Infection.

Fengling Feng, Jiaoshan Chen, Jin Zhao, Yanjun Li, Minchao Li, Caijun Sun

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Review in Viruses, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. COVID-19 therapies: do we see substantial progress?Cellular & molecular biology letters · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Fengling FengSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.ORCID 0000-0002-3824-6861
Jiaoshan ChenSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Jin ZhaoSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0797-6404
Yanjun LiSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Minchao LiSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.
Caijun SunSchool of Public Health (Shenzhen), Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China.ORCID 0000-0002-2000-7053
Sun Yat-sen University · CN

Funding

China Postdoctoral Science Foundation 2020T130150ZXNational Natural Science Foundation of China 81971927the Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province 2019A1515110458the Science and Technology Planning Project of Shenzhen City 20190804095916056, JSGG20200225152008136
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) enters host cells mainly by the angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor, which can recognize the spike (S) protein by its extracellular domain. Previously, recombinant soluble ACE2 (sACE2) has been clinically used as a therapeutic treatment for cardiovascular diseases. Recent data demonstrated that sACE2 can also be exploited as a decoy to effectively inhibit the cell entry of SARS-CoV-2, through blocking SARS-CoV-2 binding to membrane-anchored ACE2. In this study, we summarized the current findings on the optimized sACE2-based strategies as a therapeutic agent, including Fc fusion to prolong the half-life of sACE2, deep mutagenesis to create high-affinity decoys for SARS-CoV-2, or designing the truncated functional fragments to enhance its safety, among others. Considering that COVID-19 patients are often accompanied by manifestations of cardiovascular complications, we think that administration of sACE2 in COVID-19 patients may be a promising therapeutic strategy to simultaneously treat both cardiovascular diseases and SARS-CoV-2 infection. This review would provide insights for the development of novel therapeutic agents against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Indexed as

COVID-19 Drug TreatmentSARS-CoV-2Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2AnimalsCardiovascular DiseasesCOVID-19HumansPeptidyl-Dipeptidase AProtein BindingProtein EngineeringReceptors, VirusRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSpike Glycoprotein, CoronavirusACE2 protein, humanAngiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2Peptidyl-Dipeptidase AReceptors, VirusRecombinant Fusion ProteinsSpike Glycoprotein, Coronavirusspike protein, SARS-CoV-2ACE2 receptoroptimized sACE2SARS-CoV-2soluble ACE2therapeutic agent

Identifiers

PMID34835049
PMCPMC8622942
OpenAlexW3214235844

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