ACE2 and COVID-19: Literature on COVID-19 highlighted the central role of the SAAR in SARS-CoV2 cellular internalization, particularly for the virus binding to angiotensin I converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptor expressed on the cell membrane of the tissues targeted by SARS-CoV2 (Hoffmann et al., 2020; Ingraham et al., 2020; Liu et al., 2020; Mycroft-West et al., 2020).