Journal: ACS Infectious Diseases
Article Title: Human Cathelicidin Inhibits SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Killing Two Birds with One Stone
doi: 10.1021/acsinfecdis.1c00096
Figure Lengend Snippet: LL37 treatment inhibits pseudovirion infection in mouse lungs. (A) Diagrammatic drawing depicting the pseudovirion-based mouse infection model. Adenovirus, Adv ; pseudovirion, Pv. (B) Protein bands of ACE2, Flag-tag, and His-tag in Lewis cells infected by the adenoviruses and pseudovirions. β-actin is the reference. In the sham group, the cells were treated with sterile PBS. (C) EGFP mRNA expression relative to β-actin. Results are shown as the mean ± SD **, P < 0.01, compared to the sham group in which mice were treated with saline solution. (D) Protein bands of Flag-tag and His-tag in mouse lungs. β-Actin is the reference. (E) Immunofluorescence microscopy revealing the inhibition of LL37 on pseudovirion infection in vivo . The scale bar is 20 μm.
Article Snippet: ACE2, the Flag tag, and the His tag were detected using an anti-ACE2 rabbit polyclonal primary antibody (10108-T24, Sino Biological, 1:1000), the anti-Flag tag rabbit monoclonal primary antibody (1:1000), and the anti-His tag mouse monoclonal primary antibody (1:1000), respectively.
Techniques: Infection, FLAG-tag, Sterility, Expressing, Saline, Immunofluorescence, Microscopy, Inhibition, In Vivo