New collaborative paper accepted for publication today in Frontiers in Immunology. This study was led by Uday Kishore from Brunel University and is part of the Frontiers Immunology Special Collection: Innate immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 in infected and vaccinated individuals. Infection assays using SARS-CoV-2 pseudotypes constructed by VPU Martin Mayora Neto revealed increased uptake by DC-SIGN expressing cells. Martin Mayora Neto is currently funded by the Wellcome Trust.