Robust ACE2 protein expression localizes to the motile cilia of the respiratory tract epithelia and is not increased by ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.
• ² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, 801 Welch Road, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ³ Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Rheumatology, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ⁴ These authors contributed equally: Ivan T. Lee, Tsuguhisa Nakayama, Chien-Ting Wu, Yury Goltsev.
• ⁵ Baxter Laboratory, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Otolaryngology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
• ⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁸ Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ⁹ Terry Fox Cancer Research Laboratory, Translational Medicine Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ¹⁰ School of Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ¹¹ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York City, NY.
• ¹² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis, MN.
• ¹³ Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California San Diego School of Medicine, San Diego, CA.
• ¹⁴ Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
• ¹⁵ These authors jointly supervised this work: Garry P. Nolan, Jayakar V. Nayak, Peter K. Jackson.