ACE2 and viral infectious disease: This is why we postulated that cellular sheddases could be induced to cleave E-cad in SARS-CoV-2 infected cells (the best known candidate to achieve cleavage of E-cad in the intestinal tract being ADAM-10, while ADAM-17, another member of the same family of proteases, is known to cleave ACE2), and compared the expression of ADAM-10 and ADAM-17 genes in Caco-2 cells following viral infection with their expression in virus-free cells.