Bevin C English, Allan Radaic, Ross Barrios-Medina, Kerui Lin, Pachiyappan Kamarajan, Anita Sil, Yvonne L Kapila
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The antimicrobial peptide nisin promotes host cell survival during SARS-CoV-2 infection.
COVID-19 has been a major public health concern for the past five years. While remarkable work has been done to develop therapies, there is still a need for more treatments to fight this disease. Recently, it was suggested that nisin, an FDA-approved antimicrobial compound, may interfere with SARS-CoV-2 entry into host cells. Here, we show that nisin does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication in vitro. Surprisingly, nisin treatment leads to reduced host-cell death during infection in a dose-dependent manner, suggesting that nisin may mitigate SARS-CoV-2-induced pathology.
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Virology Journal is an open access, peer reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of virology, including research on the viruses of animals, plants and microbes. The journal welcomes basic research as well as pre-clinical and clinical studies of novel diagnostic tools, vaccines and anti-viral therapies.
The Editorial policy of Virology Journal is to publish all research which is assessed by peer reviewers to be a coherent and sound addition to the scientific literature, and puts less emphasis on interest levels or perceived impact.