Mast cells promote viral entry of SARS-CoV-2 via formation of chymase/spike protein complex

Successful Treatment of a Patient With Severe COVID-19 Using an Integrated Approach Addressing Mast Cells and Their Mediators

(2022) Theoharis C. Theoharides et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Basic Predictive Risk Factors for Cytokine Storms in COVID-19 Patients

(2021) Sergey G. Shcherbak et al.   Frontiers in Immunology

Fusion mechanism of 2019-nCoV and fusion inhibitors targeting HR1 domain in spike protein

(2020) Shuai Xia et al.   Cellular & Molecular Immunology

Genomic characterization of the 2019 novel human-pathogenic coronavirus isolated from a patient with atypical pneumonia after visiting Wuhan

(2020) Jasper Fuk-Woo Chan et al.   Emerging Microbes & Infections

Functional assessment of cell entry and receptor usage for SARS-CoV-2 and other lineage B betacoronaviruses

(2020) Michael Letko et al.   Nature Microbiology

Characterization of spike glycoprotein of SARS-CoV-2 on virus entry and its immune cross-reactivity with SARS-CoV

(2020) Xiuyuan Ou et al.   Nature Communications

Structural and functional properties of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein: potential antivirus drug development for COVID-19

(2020) Yuan Huang et al.   ACTA PHARMACOLOGICA SINICA

COVID-19, Mast Cells, Cytokine Storm, Psychological Stress, and Neuroinflammation

(2020) Duraisamy Kempuraj et al.   NEUROSCIENTIST

Potential association of mast cells with coronavirus disease 2019

(2020) Theoharis C. Theoharides   ANNALS OF ALLERGY ASTHMA & IMMUNOLOGY

Zoledronate modulates intracellular vesicle trafficking in mast cells via disturbing the interaction of myosinVa/Rab3a and sytaxin4/VAMP7

(2018) Shuang Liu et al.   BIOCHEMICAL PHARMACOLOGY

Mast cells as protectors of health

(2018) Anne Dudeck et al.   JOURNAL OF ALLERGY AND CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY

Searching for tryptase in the RBL-2H3 mast cell model: Preparation for comparative mast cell toxicology studies with zebrafish

(2018) Juyoung K. Shim et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED TOXICOLOGY

Transcriptional Profiling Confirms the Therapeutic Effects of Mast Cell Stabilization in a Dengue Disease Model

(2017) Juliet Morrison et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Mast cells: innate attractors recruiting protective CD8 T cells to sites of cytomegalovirus infection

(2015) Jürgen Podlech et al.   MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Mast Cells Expedite Control of Pulmonary Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection by Enhancing the Recruitment of Protective CD8 T Cells to the Lungs

(2014) Stefan Ebert et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Evidence that TMPRSS2 Activates the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus Spike Protein for Membrane Fusion and Reduces Viral Control by the Humoral Immune Response

(2011) I. Glowacka et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Mast cells and inflammation

(2010) Theoharis C. Theoharides et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR BASIS OF DISEASE

Novel site-specific mast cell subpopulations in the human lung

(2009) C K Andersson et al.   THORAX