Mucin 4 Protects Female Mice from Coronavirus Pathogenesis

Jessica A. Plante; Kenneth S. Plante; Lisa E. Gralinski; Anne Beall; Martin T. Ferris; Daniel Bottomly; Richard Green; Shannon K. McWeeney; Mark T. Heise; Ralph S. Baric; Vineet D. Menachery

All phenotypic data associated with the infection of Muc4 -/mice and their WT 339 counterparts are summarized in Table S1 and S2. Muc4 -/mice are available upon request. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.19.957118 doi: bioRxiv preprint (K99 AG 049092). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, 345 or the decision to submit the work for publication. Points represent the mean and error bars represent the standard deviation. Strain-based differences 633 did not achieve statistical significance after correction for multiple comparisons (q≥0.05). 634 635 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.19.957118 doi: bioRxiv preprint the midline represents the mean, and error bars represent standard deviation. Strain-based differences 640 did not achieve statistical significance after correction for multiple comparisons (q≥0.05). 641 642 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.19.957118 doi: bioRxiv preprint The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10. 1101