Pyroptosis of syncytia formed by fusion of SARS-CoV-2 spike and ACE2-expressing cells

Affiliations

• ¹ Institute of Drug Discovery Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. mahuabin@nbu.edu.cn.
• ² State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China. mahuabin@nbu.edu.cn.
• ³ Qian Xuesen Collaborative Research Center of Astrochemistry and Space Life Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. mahuabin@nbu.edu.cn.
• ⁴ Institute of Drug Discovery Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
• ⁵ Qian Xuesen Collaborative Research Center of Astrochemistry and Space Life Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China.
• ⁶ State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
• ⁷ Research Unit of Cellular Stress of CAMS, Cancer Research Center of Xiamen University, Xiang'an Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China.
• ⁸ Department of Emergency, Zhongshan Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
• ⁹ Institute of Drug Discovery Technology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. zhaoyufen@nbu.edu.cn.
• ¹⁰ Qian Xuesen Collaborative Research Center of Astrochemistry and Space Life Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. zhaoyufen@nbu.edu.cn.
• ¹¹ State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China. jhan@xmu.edu.cn.
• ¹² Research Unit of Cellular Stress of CAMS, Cancer Research Center of Xiamen University, Xiang'an Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China. jhan@xmu.edu.cn.