Treatment with soluble CD24 attenuates COVID-19-associated systemic immunopathology.
No-Joon SongCarter AllenAnna E VilgelmBrian P RiesenbergKevin P WellerKelsi ReynoldsKarthik B ChakravarthyAmrendra KumarAastha KhatiwadaZequn SunAnjun MaYuzhou ChangMohamed YusufAnqi LiCong ZengJohn P EvansDonna BucciManuja GunasenaMenglin XuNamal P M LiyanageChelsea BolyardMaria VelegrakiShan-Lu LiuQin MaMartin DevenportYang LiuPan ZhengCarlos D MalvestuttoDongjun ChungZihai LiPublished in: Journal of hematology & oncology (2022)
Our data demonstrate that CD24Fc rapidly down-modulates systemic inflammation and restores immune homeostasis in SARS-CoV-2-infected individuals, supporting further development of CD24Fc as a novel therapeutic against severe COVID-19.