• Human organotypic airway and lung organoid cells of bronchiolar and alveolar differentiation are permissive to infection by influenza and SARS-CoV-2 respiratory virus 

      Ekanger, Camilla Tvedt; Zhou, Fan; Bohan, Dana; Lotsberg, Maria Lie; Ramnefjell, Maria; Hoareau, Laurence; Røsland, Gro Vatne; Lu, Ning; Aanerud, Marianne; Gärtner, Fabian; Salminen, Pirjo-Riitta; Bentsen, Mariann; Halvorsen, Thomas; Ræder, Helge; Akslen, Lars Andreas; Langeland, Nina; Brokstad, Rebecca Jane Cox; Maury, Wendy; Stuhr, Linda Elin Birkhaug; Lorens, James; Engelsen, Agnete Svendsen Tenfjord (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to the initiation of unprecedented research efforts to understand the pathogenesis mediated by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). ...
    • Phosphatidylserine receptors enhance SARS-CoV-2 infection 

      Bohan, Dana; Van Ert, Hanora; Ruggio, Natalie; Rogers, Kai J; Badreddine, Mohammad; Aguilar Briseno, José A; Elliff, Jonah; Rojas Chavez, Roberth Anthony; Gao, Boning; Stokowy, Tomasz; Christakou, Eleni; Kursula, Petri; Micklem, David Robert; Gausdal, Gro; Haim, Hillel; Minna, John; Lorens, James Bradley; Maury, Wendy (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Phosphatidylserine (PS) receptors enhance infection of many enveloped viruses through virion-associated PS binding that is termed apoptotic mimicry. Here we show that this broadly shared uptake mechanism is utilized by ...