The long and the short of ACE2, the SARS-CoV-2 receptor
Just six months ago, angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) was hardly in our lexicon, but most people have heard about it by now because SARS-CoV-2 uses it as a receptor to enter cells. We explored the long and the short of ACE2: its transcriptionally independent and functionally distinct isoforms.
