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ArticleiScience2022

Synthetic carbohydrate-binding agents neutralize SARS-CoV-2 by inhibiting binding of the spike protein to ACE2.

Oscar Francesconi, Lorena Donnici, Marco Fragai, Elisa Pesce, Mauro Bombaci, Alessandra Fasciani, Lara Manganaro, Matteo Conti, Renata Grifantini, Raffaele De Francesco and 2 more

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Article in iScience, 2022. 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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4citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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

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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, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Oscar FrancesconiDipartimento di Chimica, DICUS, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Lorena DonniciFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Marco FragaiDipartimento di Chimica, DICUS, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Elisa PesceFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Mauro BombaciFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Alessandra FascianiFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Lara ManganaroFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Matteo ContiFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Renata GrifantiniFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Raffaele De FrancescoFondazione INGM - Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare "Romeo ed Enrica Invernizzi", Milan, Italy.
Cristina NativiDipartimento di Chimica, DICUS, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Stefano RoelensINSTM, University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Istituto Nazionale Genetica Molecolare · ITUniversity of Florence · ITUniversity of Milan · ITNational Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Developing strategies against the SARS-CoV-2 is currently a main research subject. SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells by binding to human ACE2 receptors. Both, virus and ACE2, are highly glycosylated, and exploiting glycans of the SARS-CoV-2 envelope as binding sites for ACE2 represents a virus strategy for attacking the human host. We report here that a family of mannose-binding synthetic carbohydrate-binding agents (CBAs) inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection, showing broad neutralizing activity

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Biological sciencesCarbohydrateMicrobiology

Identifiers

PMID35434540
PMCPMC8996466
OpenAlexW4223426434

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