Alteration of L-Dopa decarboxylase expression in SARS-CoV-2 infection and its association with the interferon-inducible ACE2 isoform

• George Mpekoulis ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: George Mpekoulis, Efseveia Frakolaki

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

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• Efseveia Frakolaki †,

  Contributed equally to this work with: George Mpekoulis, Efseveia Frakolaki

  † Deceased.

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

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• Styliani Taka,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Allergy and Clinical Immunology Unit, 2nd Pediatric Clinic, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Anastasios Ioannidis,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, University of Peloponnese, Sparti, Greece

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• Alice G. Vassiliou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation First Department of Critical Care Medicine & Pulmonary Services, GP Livanos and M Simou Laboratories, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4984-0476

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• Katerina I. Kalliampakou,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

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• Kostas Patas,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biopathology, Medical School, University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece

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• Ioannis Karakasiliotis,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Biology, Department of Medicine, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece

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• Vassilis Aidinis,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute for Bioinnovation, Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”, Athens, Greece

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• Stylianos Chatzipanagiotou,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Biopathology, Medical School, University of Athens, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece

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• Emmanouil Angelakis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostics, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece, Aix Marseille Univ, IRD, IHU Méditerranée Infection, VITROME, Marseille, France

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• Dido Vassilacopoulou,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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• Niki Vassilaki

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: nikiv@pasteur.gr

  Affiliation Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Hellenic Pasteur Institute, Athens, Greece

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7992-3438

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