Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-4-2020

Keywords

JGM, JMG, JAXCC, Animals, Betacoronavirus, Coronavirus Infections, Disease Models, Animal, Humans, Mice, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Pandemics, Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A, Pneumonia, Viral, Promoter Regions, Genetic, Protein Binding, Receptors, Virus

JAX Source

Hum Genomics Jun 4; 14(1):20

Volume

14

Issue

1

First Page

20

Last Page

20

ISSN

1479-7364

PMID

32498696

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1186/s40246-020-00272-6

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a declared pandemic that is spreading all over the world at a dreadfully fast rate. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), the pathogen of COVID-19, infects the human body using angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) as a receptor identical to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) pandemic that occurred in 2002-2003. SARS-CoV-2 has a higher binding affinity to human ACE2 than to that of other species. Animal models that mimic the human disease are highly essential to develop therapeutics and vaccines against COVID-19. Here, we review transgenic mice that express human ACE2 in the airway and other epithelia and have shown to develop a rapidly lethal infection after intranasal inoculation with SARS-CoV, the pathogen of SARS. This literature review aims to present the importance of utilizing the human ACE2 transgenic mouse model to better understand the pathogenesis of COVID-19 and develop both therapeutics and vaccines.

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