Receptor utilization of angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) indicates a narrower host range of SARS‐CoV‐2 than that of SARS‐CoV

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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Cell Line Authenticationnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    For detection of S protein, the membrane was incubated with anti-HA tag mouse monoclonal antibody (bimake, USA, 1:2000), and the bound antibodies were detected by Horseradish Peroxidase (HRP)-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG (Abbkine, China, 1:5,000).
    anti-HA
    suggested: None
    anti-mouse IgG
    suggested: None
    For detection of HIV-1 p24 in supernatants, monoclonal antibody against HIV p24 (p24 MAb) was used as the primary antibody at a dilution of 1:8,000, followed by incubation with HRP-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG at the same dilution.
    HIV-1
    suggested: None
    HIV
    suggested: None
    To detect the expression of 20 ACE2s in HeLa cells, Mouse anti-His tag monoclonal antibody (Bioworld, USA, 1:5000) was used as the first antibody, followed by incubation with HRP-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG at the same dilution.
    anti-His tag
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    Cell lines and plasmids: HEK293T and HeLa cells were obtained from the American Tissue Culture Collection and cultured in Dulbecco’s modified Eagle medium (DMEM) (Gibco, USA) supplemented with 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS) in a humidified 5% CO2 incubator at 37°C.
    HEK293T
    suggested: None
    To detect the expression of 20 ACE2s in HeLa cells, Mouse anti-His tag monoclonal antibody (Bioworld, USA, 1:5000) was used as the first antibody, followed by incubation with HRP-conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG at the same dilution.
    HeLa
    suggested: None
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Phylogenetic analysis: Multiple sequence alignment was performed for the whole aa sequences of ACEs using MAFFT with a local alignment strategy FFT-NS-2.
    MAFFT
    suggested: (MAFFT, RRID:SCR_011811)
    The phylogenetic tree was constructed by MEGA7 using the neighbor-joining (NJ) method with 1,000 bootstrap replicates and visualized using FigTree.
    MEGA7
    suggested: None
    FigTree
    suggested: (FigTree, RRID:SCR_008515)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).


    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We found bar graphs of continuous data. We recommend replacing bar graphs with more informative graphics, as many different datasets can lead to the same bar graph. The actual data may suggest different conclusions from the summary statistics. For more information, please see Weissgerber et al (2015).


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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