Description
Coronaviruses are a family of large RNA viruses with sizes ranging from 26 to 32 kb. These viruses are zoonotic and in humans can cause respiratory infections. In December 2019, a new deadly coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, which has a high sequence similarity to SARS-CoV, was identified. SARS-CoV-2 has caused a pneumonia outbreak known as Covid-19 in Wuhan, China and spread globally. Currently, the limited understanding of the genetic basis of the virus-host cells interaction and the host's response has become a major challenge in SARS-CoV-2 research and therapeutic treatments. ScienCell's GeneQuery™ Human SARS-CoV-2 Interacting Genes qPCR Array Kit (GQH-SCV) is designed to facilitate gene expression profiling of 86 genes that were identified as SARS-CoV-2 interacting genes. Additionally, two SARS-CoV-2 genes, the nucleocapsid (N) and the spike (S) genes, were included in the panel allowing quantification of the virus presence in the samples