Table 1 Amino acid sequence similarity between human and animal ACE2 isoforms

From: Resistance to SARS-CoV-2 infection in camelid nasal organoids is associated with lack of ACE2 expression

ACE2 isoform

Sequence similarity to human ACE2 (%)

Mouse

80.3

Rat

80.7

Hamster

83.1

Bactrian camel

81.6

Wild Bactrian camel

81.6

Alpaca

81.8

Mink

81.2

  1. Sequence similarities of animal ACE2 isoforms to human ACE2 were calculated from an amino acid alignment and were presented as percentage similarity.
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