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Slack / Private Message Drop, pp.139-140 [SLACK_000353] · slack_pm:msg:01432

Date: 2020-08-18 17:02
Type: chat message · slack
recipient: Robert F. Garry, Edward C. Holmes, Andrew Rambaut
speaker: Kristian G. Andersen
Topics: Furin cleavage site and molecular features

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I love their discussion of the furin site - "This furin cleavage site, *which is poly or multibasic by definition since itscomposed of multiple basic amino acids*". Smart people, them."In addition to the inexplicable genetic distance from its sister strains, which screams out for an intermediate relativeto complete the phylogenetic picture, SARSnCoVn2 [...]".Fuck it, I'm going to use that in one of my upcoming publications too - the tree SCREAMS out for an intermediate relative!!!

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I love their discussion of the furin site - "This furin cleavage site, which is poly or multibasic by definition since itscomposed of multiple basic amino acids".	quoted / not their view	quoted_external sentence carries quotation marks	asserts

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I love their discussion of the furin site - "This furin cleavage site, *which is poly or multibasic by definition since itscomposed of multiple basic amino acids*".

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2020-08-18 16:59 Kristian G. Andersen open

"prominent virologists and other eminent scientists" - I believe this is us? :clap:
2020-08-18 17:02 Kristian G. Andersen

I love their discussion of the furin site - "This furin cleavage site, *which is poly or multibasic by definition since itscomposed of multiple basic amino acids*". Smart people, them."In addition to the inexplicable genetic distance from its sister strains, which screams out for an intermediate relativeto complete the phylogenetic picture, SARSnCoVn2 [...]".Fuck it, I'm going to use that in one of my upcoming publications too - the tree SCREAMS out for an intermediate relative!!!
2020-08-18 17:22 Edward C. Holmes open

I just don't get how BioEssays took this shite.
2020-08-18 17:28 Kristian G. Andersen open

Hah, yeah, dunno. It's fine though - but I just don't understand that people keep ignoring pangolins... So dumb. Iagree it was mysterious - really mysterious - but then some pangolin viruses came around and mystery solved.Clearly not Bayesians.

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