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Slack / Private Message Drop, p.189 [SLACK_000403] · slack_pm:msg:01950

Date: 2020-09-22 14:48
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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They got a number of things wrong - some of which could be problematic. E.g., they mention that SARS1 has a furin cleavage site in the spike - that's clearly not true and suggestive of them not looking very closely at the literature. I'll posit that my much shorter Twitter thread did a better job :wink:

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E.g., they mention that SARS1 has a furin cleavage site in the spike - that's clearly not true and suggestive of them not looking very closely at the literature.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	denies

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E.g., they mention that SARS1 has a furin cleavage site in the spike - that's clearly not true and suggestive of them not looking very closely at the literature.

own voice, substantive

speaker_own

denies

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2020-09-22 14:44 Edward C. Holmes open

Hope the GVN thing was ok Bob. Would have been better - with more discussion - if they have not spent so much time patting each other on the back at the start.
2020-09-22 14:44 Kristian G. Andersen open

I just read it as well - not very impressed. I'd say an over B- grade.
2020-09-22 14:46 Edward C. Holmes open

Do you know the Hopkins authors?
2020-09-22 14:46 Kristian G. Andersen open

Nope
2020-09-22 14:48 Kristian G. Andersen

They got a number of things wrong - some of which could be problematic. E.g., they mention that SARS1 has a furin cleavage site in the spike - that's clearly not true and suggestive of them not looking very closely at the literature. I'll posit that my much shorter Twitter thread did a better job :wink:
2020-09-22 14:50 Edward C. Holmes open

SARS1 furin is a shocker. Best not associate ourselves with these people. Your Twitter thread was very good: reallywound them up!
2020-09-22 15:32 Robert F. Garry open

Agree about the patting - but you did great Eddie! Action-packed 9 slides...and more than a few well placed blowstoward the GVP crowd. I must have blown over the SARS1 furin bit in the Gronvall piece - that would have definitelylowered my grade probably even below the B-.
2020-09-22 15:43 Robert F. Garry open

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32869021/ Furin site is important

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