Lack of Evidence of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 Expression and Replicative Infection by SARS-CoV-2 in Human Endothelial Cells

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for Cardiovascular Science (I.R.M., A.H.B.), University of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, United Kingdom.
• ² National Heart and Lung Institute, National Institute for Health Research Imperial Biomedical Research Centre, Imperial College London, United Kingdom (G.S., A.H., C.P., V.K., G.M.B., M.N., A.M.R.).
• ³ Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden (L.H., M.A.-M., C.B.).
• ⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin Neurological Institute, Key Laboratory of Post-Neuroinjury Neuro-Repair and Regeneration in Central Nervous System, Ministry of Education and Tianjin City, Tianjin, China (L.H.).
• ⁵ Infection Medicine (A.D., S.J.G., J.G.H.), University of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Easter Bush, Midlothian, United Kingdom (S.F., N.M.C., C.T.-B.).
• ⁷ Integrated Cardio Metabolic Centre (L.M., U.L., C.B.), Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
• ⁸ Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (U.L.).
• ⁹ Department of Medicine Huddinge (C.B.), Karolinska Institute, Sweden.